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Michigan Law Review

1938

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Negligence - Duty Of Storekeeper - Injuries To Customer From Acts Of Third Parties, Michigan Law Review Apr 1938

Negligence - Duty Of Storekeeper - Injuries To Customer From Acts Of Third Parties, Michigan Law Review

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Plaintiff, a customer in defendant's store, was injured when, as she reached the intersection of two aisles, she was struck by a child riding a tricycle which belonged to defendant. There was no proof that defendant customarily permitted children to ride the tricycles displayed for sale; nor was it shown that defendant had authorized its use on this occasion. Held (two judges dissenting), defendant not liable. Barnes v. J. C. Penney Co., 190 Wash. 633, 70 P. (2d) 311 (1937).


Municipal Corporations - Tort Liability - Applicability Of Statutory Notice Requirement To Infants, Michigan Law Review Jan 1938

Municipal Corporations - Tort Liability - Applicability Of Statutory Notice Requirement To Infants, Michigan Law Review

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A statute provided "No action shall be maintained by any person . . . against any city" unless the person injured filed notice of claim within three months after the injury. The plaintiff, an infant sixteen years of age, was injured when he fell into an unlighted, unguarded opening in a sidewalk at the city's memorial building, which the city had rented for the evening in question to a boy scout group of which plaintiff was a member. No statutory notice was filed. The court held the statute created a mandatory condition precedent, applying to infants as well as adults, …


Negligence Injury To Child From Defendants Dangerous Chattel On The Land Of A Third Person, Michigan Law Review Jan 1938

Negligence Injury To Child From Defendants Dangerous Chattel On The Land Of A Third Person, Michigan Law Review

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The minor plaintiff, a child of seven, sued to recover damages for personal injuries received while playing upon defendant's road scraper which had been parked near a playground in a vacant lot belonging to a stranger. Held, that the defendant was under a duty to guard against danger of injury to children by tying fast the operating mechanism with a rope, and the plaintiff, even though a trespasser, is entitled to recover. "The defense of no liability to a trespasser is personal to the owner of the premises trespassed upon; it does not inure to the benefit of strangers …


Torts - Prenatal Injuries To Infants, Frank B. Stone Jan 1938

Torts - Prenatal Injuries To Infants, Frank B. Stone

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This was an action by the administrator under the survival act. Decedent's mother while a passenger on the defendant's street-car was injured through negligence of an employee. Decedent thus suffered prenatal injuries to his skull from which he died three months after birth. The birth occurred 22 days after the accident and after a normal period of gestation. Held, there is no liability to an infant for prenatal injuries and therefore no cause of action existed in the child or survives to the administrator. Newman v. City of Detroit, 281 Mich. 60, 274 N. W. 710 (1937).