Show THE READERS COURTROOM negligence key I 1 to auto thefts by will bernard Is it negligence to leave tile the ignition key in your parked car A woman parked her car in front 0 of f a market and went in to do some shopping in the car she le left it 1 the ignition key 2 her neighbor and 3 the neighbors six benr old nid son while the neighbors neighbor 5 attention was distracted tile the boy turned on the ignition re leasell tile the brakis shifted into reverse and pressed the starter the car backed across the sidewalk and trashed crashed through the market window knocking down the vegetable in man n lie ile was injured arid and later sued the cars owner for da damages mages anyone who leaves a child in a car with the key in the ignition argued the man Is asking for trouble but the court disagreed and rejected his ch claim nim the judge said no one would have expected a six year old to do so much mischief in so little aimel Is the customer always right A woman went to a five and ten cent store to buy some paper napkins on her way out she slipped on a little spot of hand lotion that had somehow gotten on the floor door bruised and shaken the woman determined to sue the company com puy for or damages at the trial she said your honor I 1 dont know who dropped the lotion and I 1 dont don t know how long it had been there but I 1 do krow know that I 1 was a customer of the store and was entitled to a safe place to walk however the court decided that in this case at least the customer was wrong the judge said that a shopper cant blame the store for anthina an thing that might happen to her unless she can prove some come sort of airlessness by company employ tes if bumped by a drunk in a bar may you collect damages four men wore were lined up tip in front of a bar one night drinking steadily bloodily suddenly in an excess of good spirits the first man butted the second man with his shoulder man number 2 fell against min man number 3 who fell against man number 4 nv who ho tell fell hat flat on the floor lie he suffered a broken finger and later tiled filed a damage action against the first min man at the trial the defendant reasoned as follows 1 I just pushed my neighbor whit what happened after that was beyond my control and therefore was not my fault but the court felt otherwise and held field him liable tile the judge said that considering the position of the four men the original pusher could have rind and should have abc forc foreseen seen the result does docs a doctor have any obligation toward a person who his patient A carpenter had a badly infected finger and his wife drove hirn him to the doctors doc tois office after a brief examination the doctor said to the wife madam please hold your husbands finger dont be afraid while I 1 pet get a bondage bandage on unfortunately the wife had a few scratches on her own hand and in the process of helping the doctor she caught the infection herself later she sued for damages I 1 the he physician protested 1 I was hired to take like care of the husband not the wife toward tier her I 1 had no particular obligation gut but the court disagreed and granted tile the cifes claim the judge said the doctor had 6 duty to reason reasonable aule care toward anybody and he done so here |