Add to ORKGSchipper v. Levitt & Sons, Inc., held that a tract home-builder must defend his actions against the prima facie case established by an injured third party. The importance of this case lies in the application of a tort doctrine, previously applied exclusively to negligent acts by chattel manufacturers, to real property construction. This extension is shattering the ancient property concepts so much the bedrock of our Common Law. We will review that foundation and the old rules of non-liability as they concern the landowner, contractor, and third party, in order to grasp the significance of this new change in jurisprudential thought. From there, we will analyze Ohio\u27s reliance on the old and possible adoption of the new
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Defendant, a mass-developer who planned communities and sold homes on the basis of advertised models...
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Are the doctrines of premises liability (traditionally landowner liability) and independent contract...
The author points up the decline of caveat emptor as a viable doctrine governing the sale of new hom...
In Ohio, home buyers have several means available to protect their investment and assure themselves ...
Defendant manufactured a type of building lath which was represented to the trade as practical and ...
The High Court, in the 1995 landmark case of Bryan v Maloney, held a builder of a residential house ...
The Supreme Court\u27s decision in Winnipeg Condo. Corp. No. 36 v. Bird Construction expanded recove...
A perennially litigious area of the law of negligence is that dealing with builders' liability. The ...
The position of the American courts regarding the matter of the liability of a builder-vendor for hi...
Torts-CONTRACTOR LIABILITY-CONTRACTOR HELD LIABLE TO REMOTE PURCHASER FOR PROPERTY DAMAGE ATTRIBUTAB...
The Court of Appeals of California has held that the doctrine of strict liability applies to home bu...
The plaintiff, an infant, fell from the back porch of an apartment leased by his parents from a hous...
Defendant, a mass-developer who planned communities and sold homes on the basis of advertised models...
The issue of the right of recovery by a building contractor who has failed to comply literally with ...
In Murk v. Aronsen the Washington Supreme Court had occasion to consider a landowner\u27s tort liabi...
Over the past two decades, several courts have allowed construction industry plaintiffs to assert to...
Are the doctrines of premises liability (traditionally landowner liability) and independent contract...
The author points up the decline of caveat emptor as a viable doctrine governing the sale of new hom...
In Ohio, home buyers have several means available to protect their investment and assure themselves ...
Defendant manufactured a type of building lath which was represented to the trade as practical and ...
The High Court, in the 1995 landmark case of Bryan v Maloney, held a builder of a residential house ...
The Supreme Court\u27s decision in Winnipeg Condo. Corp. No. 36 v. Bird Construction expanded recove...
A perennially litigious area of the law of negligence is that dealing with builders' liability. The ...