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Negligence-Proximate Cause-Duty Of Parking Lot Owner To Car Owner
Negligence-Proximate Cause-Duty Of Parking Lot Owner To Car Owner
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff parked his car in defendant's parking lot, which was open to the public although no attendant appears to have been on duty. There was an unguarded excavation about forty feet to the rear of the space chosen by the plaintiff. In preparing to leave the lot, plaintiff cranked his car which, apparently, had been left in reverse. The car backed into the excavation, despite plaintiff's efforts to get it under control, and plaintiff sued the lot owner for injuries resulting. Held, that the defendant parking lot owner was not liable. Fielding v. S. Z. Poli Realty Co. (Mass. …
Negligence-Proximate Cause
Michigan Law Review
Defendant automobile driver, stopping his car between a line of parked motor cars and some street car tracks, opened the door on the left side of the automobile, with the result that the handle bar of plaintiff's bicycle struck the edge of the car door and plaintiff was thrown to the ground and injured. In the supreme court of Wisconsin, in an opinion containing, among other interesting features, model instructions for juries in the trial courts, it was held that liability for consequences of negligent acts is not limited to probable consequences but may attach to unforeseeable and improbable consequences. …