Court Opinion

ID: 9823047
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 09:39:07.22597+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:39:13.739727
License: Public Domain

CRICHTON, J.,
additionally concurs and assigns reasons.
|TI agree with the per curiam opinion. I write separately to note that this holding is compelled, in my view, by the Civil Code dictate that “[c]ontracts have the effect of law for the parties.” La. C.C. art. 1983. Louisiana courts have never before imposed a theory of negligence upon a contractor where there has been no underlying finding of breach of contract. Because there was no such finding here, to hold otherwise would impose a new duty beyond the scope of the contract, which, in my view, this Court properly declines to do.