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RESPECT TO DANGEROUS CONDITION? IF SO, UNDER WHAT CIRCUMSTANCES?
INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR AND THUS NO LIABILITY COULD ARISE FOR DEFENDANT.
duties landowners owe to independent contractors.
We hold the trial court correctly found no duty here, and the court of appeals erred in reversing it.
straight, 10 feet wide, 40 feet long, and had six-inch curbs along both edges but no guard rails.
load his truck on the ramp or outside in the driveway.
fall off the ramp’s side and fracture his hip, pelvis, and thumb.
theories and reversed. We address each theory in turn.
does not owe a duty to ensure that independent contractors perform their work in a safe manner.
cords he used for that purpose were entirely his own.
Moritz’s activities if his injury arose from another.
Accordingly, the court of appeals erred in finding a fact question on his negligent activity theory.
existing condition and obviously not a concealed hazard.
shoppers, sightseers, or other business invitees.
controls the details and methods of its own work, including the labor and equipment employed.
defects ensures that the party with the duty is the one with the ability to carry it out.
been using for more than a year had no handrails.
unquestionably had a duty to provide second-floor renters some way down besides jumping.
must, however, prove the defendant had a duty and breached it.
the First, Seventh, Eighth, and Fourteenth Districts, and the federal Fifth Circuit.
employer must owe him a duty here. We expressly rejected any such duty forty years ago.
or otherwise — as the dissent asserts.
but we decline the dissent’s suggestion that we simplify them by mashing them all together.
conditions that are not open and obvious and that the owner knows or should have known exist.”).
before the summary judgments at issue here.
Co., 845 S.W.2d 262, 264 (Tex. 1992).
Coastal Marine Serv. of Tex., 988 S.W.2d at 225; Olivo, 952 S.W.2d at 527.
 Khan, 138 S.W.3d at 292; accord, Dow Chem. Co. v. Bright, 89 S.W.3d 602, 607 (Tex. 2002); Lee Lewis Constr., Inc. v.
(Second) of Torts § 414 (1965).
11 S.W.3d 153, 155 (Tex. 1999).
 70 S.W.3d 778 (Tex. 2001).
 ___ S.W.3d at ___ (emphasis added).
ones it controlled had nothing to do with the criminal act that ultimately occurred.”).
 Id. at 291; Dow Chem., 89 S.W.3d at 606; Koch Ref., 11 S.W.3d at 156 n.3; Redinger, 689 S.W.2d at 417.
443, 446 (Tex. App.—Amarillo 1985, writ ref’d n.r.e.).
 Johnson County Sheriff’s Posse, Inc. v. Endsley, 926 S.W.2d 284, 285 (Tex. 1996); Brownsville Navigation Dist. v.
(Second) of Torts § 358 (1965).
and the duty to furnish reasonably safe instrumentalities with which employees are to work.”).
 Limestone Prods. Distrib., Inc. v. McNamara, 71 S.W.3d 308, 312 (Tex. 2002).
 565 S.W.2d 512, 517 (Tex. 1978).
 682 S.W.2d 533, 533-34 (Tex. 1984).
so open and obvious as to charge her, as a matter of law, with such knowledge and appreciation”).
legal duty owed to him by the defendant to establish tort liability.”).
 Mellon Mortgage Co. v. Holder, 5 S.W.3d 654, 663 (Tex. 1999); Timberwalk Apartments, Partners, Inc. v. Cain, 972 S.
W.2d 749, 756 (Tex. 1998).
 Joachimi v. City of Houston, 712 S.W.2d 861, 863 n.1 (Tex. App.—Houston [1st Dist.] 1986, no pet.).
 Bryant v. Gulf Oil Corp., 694 S.W.2d 443, 445 (Tex. App.—Amarillo 1985, writ ref’d n.r.e.).
 Delgado v. Houghston, No. 08-99-00044-CV, 2000 WL 678774, at *5 n.2 (Tex. App.—El Paso May 25, 2000, no pet.).
 Bill’s Dollar Store, Inc. v. Bean, 77 S.W.3d 367, 370 (Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.] 2002, pet. denied). But cf.
of that danger even if the invitee is already aware. However, that result is dictated by Parker . . . .”).
 See Thomas v. Internorth, Inc., 790 F.2d 1253, 1256 (5th Cir. 1986).
 258 S.W. 803, 806 (Tex. 1924).
 Delhi-Taylor Oil Corp. v. Henry, 416 S.W.2d 390, 394 (Tex. 1967).
defect when a safer, reasonable alternative design exists.”); Parker v. Highland Park, Inc., 565 S.W.2d 512, 520 (Tex.
 Edward D. Jones & Co. v. Fletcher, 975 S.W.2d 539, 544 (Tex. 1998).

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