Court Opinion

ID: 9794196
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 03:01:10.272003+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:12:58.105915
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BAKES, Chief Justice,
dissenting:
I dissent from Part I of the Court’s opinion which concludes the trial court erred in ruling that Arrington Brothers Construction Co., Inc. (ABC), had not violated the OSHA regulations in the accident involving the subcontractor, Norman E. Arrington. The doctrine of negligence per se should not apply to the independent contractual relationship between the contractor, ABC, and Norman E. Arrington, for the reasons set out in my dissenting opinion in Walton v. Potlatch Corp., 116 Idaho 892, 781 P.2d 229 (1989).
As to Part II of the majority opinion, I disagree with this Court’s ruling in Harrison v. Taylor, 115 Idaho 588, 768 P.2d 1321 (1989). I believe that the proper rule was that contained in Bates v. Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center, 114 Idaho 252, 755 P.2d 1290 (1988), and would affirm the summary judgment issued by the trial court on that basis.