Cengage Advantage Books: Essentials of Business Law 5th Edition by Jeffrey Beatty,Susan Samuelson

Exercise 7

Courts generally follow precedent, but in the Tarasoff and Soldano cases discussed earlier in this chapter, they did not. Consider the opening scenario at the Old Abandoned Mill. Should the hiker bear any legal responsibility for Gary's untimely end; or should a court follow precedent and hold the lazy hiker blameless