Hand v. Harrison

Townsend, Judge.

“The general rule is well established that an independent contractor is not liable for injuries to a third person occurring-after the contractor has completed the work and turned it over to the owner or employer and the same has been accepted by him, though the injury result from the contractor’s failure to properly carry out his contract. . . There are some modifications of this rule. Among them are cases where the work is a nuisance per se, or where it is turned over by the con tractor in a manner so negligently defective as to be imminently dangerous to third persons.”…