Torts: Basic Fluency in a Fundamental Legal Language (Revised for Fall '24)

Resource 4 . 3 . 4 . 3

11 minutes

Trujeque v. Service Merchandise Co. ("The Collapsing Chair Case")

Jordan Wallace-Wolf

What is needed to establish the exclusive control element of a res ipsa case? How would you describe the two kinds of control that the parties present as being the relevant kind?

Supreme Court of New Mexico

117 N.M. 388, 872 P.2d 361

No. 20368

1994-03-29

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