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BUSH v. SECO ELEC. CO.

No. 96-2875.

118 F.3d 519 (1997)

Jerri BUSH, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SECO ELECTRIC COMPANY and Jack Satkamp, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 25, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nana Quay-Smith (argued), Karl L. Mulvaney, Patrick A. Elward, Bingham, Summers, Welsh & Spilman, Indianapolis, IN, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Dale W. Eikenberry (argued), Wooden & McLaughlin, Indianapolis, IN, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before POSNER, Chief Judge, and CUMMINGS and CUDAHY, Circuit Judges.

CUDAHY, Circuit Judge.

The law of Indiana has long held that once an owner accepts a piece of construction work from an independent contractor, the owner takes full responsibility for it. Daugherty v. Herzog, 145 Ind. 255, 44 N.E. 457 (1896). The contractor's duty of care to a third party for personal injury thereby ceases, for the contractor and the third party are not in privity. Holland Furnace Co. v. Nauracaj, 105 Ind.App. 574, 14 N.E.2d 339 (1938...

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