USIC Denies Culpability for Damage to Extenet’s Underground Cable
Extenet contractor USIC Locating Services “generally denies each and every allegation” in Horizon Underground’s Feb. 10 third-party petition that it improperly located and marked Extenet’s underground utility cable and facilities during a 2021 excavation, causing nearly $35,000 in damages (see…
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2302200003), said USIC’s March 20 answer to the petition (docket DC-22-17265) in the 101st Judicial District Texas Court in Dallas County. USIC, improperly named U.S. Infrastructure Corp. in the petition, “demands strict proof” from Horizon of its culpability, said its answer. “USIC would show that the negligent acts or omissions of some other individual or entity were the sole proximate cause” of Extenet’s alleged damages, it said. USIC demands a jury trial on Horizon’s allegations, it said.