Thompson v. Burke Engineering Sales Co.

How courts have described this case

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• builder can be held liable for injuries to a third person if the danger to others was reasonably foreseeable
• common experience teaches that ceilings do not fall in the absence of negligence
• overturning old rule and adopting foreseeability rule
• overturning old rule and adopting foreseeability rule

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