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Positive Externalities And The Economics Of Proximate Cause, Israel Gilead, Michael D. Green
Positive Externalities And The Economics Of Proximate Cause, Israel Gilead, Michael D. Green
Washington and Lee Law Review
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Rape On The Washington Southern: The Tragic Case Of Hines V. Garrett, Michael I. Krauss
Rape On The Washington Southern: The Tragic Case Of Hines V. Garrett, Michael I. Krauss
Catholic University Law Review
In 1919, Ms. Julia May Garret, a young Virginian woman, was brutally raped by two different men as she was walking home after the Washington Southern Railway failed to stop at her designated station. What followed was a legal battle that created precedent still discussed in American casebooks today. Although most case law recognizes that the criminal acts of third parties severs liability because such conduct is considered unforeseeable, Hines v. Garrett held that the harm Ms. Garrett suffered was within the risk created by the railroad’s negligence, and as a common carrier, the railroad owed her a duty to …