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

Resource 4 . 3 . 4 . 1

4 minutes

Byrne v. Boadle ("The Falling Flour Barrel Case")

Jordan Wallace-Wolf

Should courts be willing to presume negligence in situations where the plaintiff's injury implies negligence has occurred, even in the absence of direct evidence to that effect?

 

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