Torts: Basic Fluency in a Fundamental Legal Language (Revised)

Resource 2 . 4 . 1 . 3

14 minutes

Hawke v. Maus ("The Runaway Tractor Case")

Jordan Wallace-Wolf

Is the rule for trespass as simple as: "Trespass is when A is on the land of B"? What does A's state of mind have to be with regard to the action that put him on B's land?

Appellate Court of Indiana

141 Ind. App. 126

No. 20,363

1967-05-31

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