Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Dolce

How courts have described this case

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• merely furnishing a non-dangerous condition creates no liability for damages caused by an unforeseeable negligent act
• phone booth struck by car not legal cause of injury to passengers
• phone booth struck by car not legal cause of injury to passengers
• injury to pay-phone patron resulting from vehicle’s brakes failing on a road adjacent to parking lot next to which telephone company placed a public phone too remote from act of placing and maintaining phone at that location
• injury to pay-phone patron resulting from vehicle's brakes failing on a road adjacent to parking lot next to which telephone company placed a public phone too remote from act of placing and maintaining phone at that location
• defendant’s actions did nothing more than “furnish the condition”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).