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Wood v. Groh

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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