Subcontractor Denies It Breached Relationship With Crown Castle Contractor

Subcontractor Kee Industries denies it breached its contractual relationship with Crown Castle contractor American Power Tower (APT) by failing to provide proper services and personnel for Dish Network and Samsung wireless infrastructure projects in Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia (see 2306260001), said Kee’s answer Wednesday (docket 1:23-cv-01239) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Ohio in Cleveland. Due to Kee’s “intentional and tortious interference” with APT’s contractual relationships with Crown Castle, APT suffered economic damages and incurred unnecessary legal expenses, alleged APT’s June 23 complaint. APT has suffered, and will continue to incur in the future, economic damages “as a direct and proximate result” of Kee’s tort, it said. But Kee alleges APT’s own acts or omissions “amount to wrongful negligent or intentional acts or omissions,” said its answer. Kee also alleges any damages sustained by APT were caused by “superseding” or “intervening” acts or omissions of persons or entititles other than Kee over whose conduct Kee “has no control,” it said.