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

Resource 4 . 3 . 1 . 8

9 minutes

McCarty v. Pheasant Run, Inc. ("The Safety Chain Case")

Jordan Wallace-Wolf

According to this opinion, who gets to decide whether the hotel breached its duty of reasonable care? What theories of breach were put forward?

United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

826 F.2d 1554

No. 86-2135

1987-07-22

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