Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. of Maryland v. Chesapeake Utilities Corp.

HORSEY, Justice:

This interlocutory appeal primarily concerns the duties, for purposes of tort liability, of an employer of an independent contractor to the latter’s employees under Maryland law.

Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Maryland, a Maryland corporation, 1 contracted with Teal Construction, Inc., a Delaware corporation, for Teal to perform certain underground conduit and manhole construction work along West Isabella Street in Salisbury, Maryland in late 1969. Chesapeake Utilities Corporation, a Delaware corporation, 2 was the owner of an underground four inch gas main that…