Torts - Spring 2016 full version

Resource 7 . 1 . 2

7 minutes

Wood v. Groh

Samantha Bates,

Jonathan Zittrain

Does the reasonable person standard require increased care for dangerous instrumentalties? Defendant, age fifteen, obtained his father’s gun and accidentally shot the plaintiff while intoxicated. He had retrieved the gun from his father’s locked gun cabinet after using a screwdriver to force it open.

Kansas Supreme Court

269 Kan. 420, 7 P.3d 1163

No. 81,826

2000-06-09

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