St. Joseph Light & Power Co. v. Kaw Valley Tunneling, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting power company recovered in negligence action against city for failing to exercise proper control over contractor and failing to prevent foreseeable damage
• construction of sewers is a ministerial act and, therefore, a proprietary function, but broad planning decisions on whether to build a sewer system, the extent of the system and the amount to be spent are governmental acts
• finding liability where contract clearly intended to benefit third party

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).