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Negligence - Proximate Cause - Intervening Act Of A Child, Stanton J. Schuman
Negligence - Proximate Cause - Intervening Act Of A Child, Stanton J. Schuman
Michigan Law Review
Defendant's truck was overloaded with unslaked lime and a piece which fell off was picked up by the child plaintiff, who put the lime in a bucket of damp earth which he was carrying. In the resulting explosion plaintiff lost one eye and injured the other. Held, the intervening act of a person over whom the defendant had no control broke the chain of causation. Leoni v. Reinhard, 327 Pa. 391, 194 A. 490 (1937).
Torts - Liability Of Landlord To Tenant For Disrepair, Michigan Law Review
Torts - Liability Of Landlord To Tenant For Disrepair, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A landlord made an oral, month-to-month lease of premises to one Harris, who occupied the premises as a beauty shop in which he employed his wife. Both at the time of the letting and subsequently, an agent of the landlord agreed to repair a defective cellar stairway, but failed to do so. The lessee's wife was injured by the collapse of the stairway; thereupon, the tenant and his wife sued the landlord. A verdict was directed against the tenant and judgment non obstante veredicto was entered against the wife. The wife appealed. Held, even assuming the wife not contributorily …