State Ready Mix, Inc. v. Moffatt & Nichol

Opinion

YEGAN, J.

Mixing concrete, like baking a cake, is fraught with problems when the recipe is not followed. Here, concrete supplier, State Ready Mix, Inc. (State), wrote the concrete mix design (the recipe) and prepared a bad batch of concrete that was used to construct a harbor pier. State blames the bad concrete on the civil engineer who drafted the pier plans and helped the general contractor by gratuitously reviewing State’s concrete mix design. In the words of Clare Boothe Luce, “No good deed goes unpunished.” (See Wright v. Beverly Fabrics, Inc. (2002) 95 Cal.App.4th 346, 348 [115…