Topic: no action for negligence will lie without a duty broken. · Go Syfert
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3 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 14 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Parsley v. General Motors Acceptance Corp..

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1 Parsley v. General Motors Acceptance Corp. Anchor
wva · 1981
green “no action for negligence will lie without a duty broken.” 8
2 Eastern Steel Constructors, Inc. v. City of Salem
wva · 2001
green “the determination of whether a defendant . . . owes a duty to the plaintiff is not a factual question for the jury; rather the determination . . . must be rendered by the court as a matter of law.” 4
3 Parsley v. General Motors Acceptance Corp.
wva · 1981
green “in order to establish a prima facie case of negligence in west virginia, it must be shown that the defendant has been guilty of some act or omission in violation of a duty owed to the plaintiff. no action for negligence will lie without a duty broken.” 2

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