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

Resource 4 . 4 . 2 . 3 . 4

11 minutes

Springtree Properties, Inc. v. Hammond ("the Runaway Car Case")

Jordan Wallace-Wolf

Notice that this case does a better job of some others in making it clear that when it discusses foreseeability, it is doing so in relation to proximate causation rather than in relation to duty. 

Florida Supreme Court

692 So. 2d 164

No. 87684

1997-04-17

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