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SOLON v. WEK DRILLING CO., INC.

No. 19532.

829 P.2d 645 (1992)

113 N.M. 566

Arthur SOLON, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Ivan Ponce on behalf of Ambrosia Ponce, Plaintiff, and Alvino Ponce and Maria Ponce, individually and as next friends of Ivan Ponce, deceased, Applicants in Intervention-Appellants, v. WEK DRILLING COMPANY, INC., Defendant-Appellee.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

March 31, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Taylor, Gaddy, Rakes & Hall, James E. Bierly and Daniel Rakes, Albuquerque, and J.W. Neal, Hobbs, for appellants.

Mark Terrence Sanchez and Gary Don Reagan, Hobbs, for appellee.

OPINION

MONTGOMERY, Justice.

This, as we view it, is a Palsgraf1 case (though not a particularly good one). The question is whether one who owes a duty to another to provide that other with a safe place to work, and whose negligence in breaching that duty causes the death of the other, also owes a duty to the other's parents so that they may sue the tortfeasor, in their own right...

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