Court Opinion

ID: 9698043
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 19:40:15.197245+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:20:37.873259
License: Public Domain

Heher, J.
(dissenting). I hold to the views expressed in my dissent in Reimann v. Monmouth Consolidated Water Co., 9 N. J. 134, 152 (1952), that the pleaded liability for mere nonfeasance is not laid upon the defendant water company either by the common law, by statute or by contract, but that it is liable at common law for a positive act of negligent misfeasance; and since tire complaint here charges misfeasance grounded in the reasonably foreseeable risk of harm to another, I would reverse the judgment as to that count, entered as it was under R. R. 4:58-3, on the premise that the complaint fails to state a claim upon which relief can be had.