Whalen v. U S West Communications, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that provisions of § 25-2001 do not apply to prevent courts from reconsidering interlocutory orders
• holding no duly when owner's employees delivered equipment to construction site and were present at the time the injury occurred
• holding no duty when owner’s employees delivered equipment to construction site and were present at the time the injury occurred
• finding a property owner did not retain control, although the contract allowed the owner to inspect the independent contractor's work and to stop the work under certain circumstances
• engaging in full \peculiar risk\ analysis, then avoiding separate \special risk or danger\ analysis by noting, \[W]e have already determined that this case does not involve a special risk or danger.\
• finding a property owner did not retain control, although the contract allowed the owner to inspect the independent contractor’s work and to stop the work under certain circumstances

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).