Standard Oil Co. v. Calmar Steamship Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• “The court rejects [the plaintiff’s] argument that the [defendant’s internal] handbooks created a legal duty on the [defendant’s] part to remove the tracked in water. Analogous arguments have been made to, and rejected by, the Illinois appellate courts.”
• “A finding that such a manual or policy in and of itself created a legal duty on the part of the business . . . would discourage businesses from producing or formulating such guidelines, which would be detrimental to the general public’s best interest.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).