Questions from Business Law

Q: A statute requiring railroads to fence their tracks is construed as intended

A statute requiring railroads to fence their tracks is construed as intended solely to prevent animals that stray onto the right of way from being hit by trains. B & A Railroad Co. fails to fence its...

Q: Timothy keeps a pet chimpanzee, which is thoroughly tamed and accustomed

Timothy keeps a pet chimpanzee, which is thoroughly tamed and accustomed to playing with its owner's children. The chimpanzee escapes, despite every precaution to keep it upon its owner's premises. It...

Q: Hawkins slipped and fell on a puddle of water just inside of

Hawkins slipped and fell on a puddle of water just inside of the automatic door to the H. E. Butt Grocery Company's store. The water had been tracked into the store by customers and blown through the...

Q: Escola, a waitress, was injured when a bottle of soda

Escola, a waitress, was injured when a bottle of soda exploded in her hand while she was putting it into the restaurant's cooler. The bottle came from a shipment that had remained under the counter fo...

Q: Hunn injured herself when she slipped and fell on a loose plank

Hunn injured herself when she slipped and fell on a loose plank while walking down some steps. The night before, while entering the hotel, she had noticed that the steps were dangerous, and although s...

Q: Fredericks, a hotel owner, had a dog named “Sport

Fredericks, a hotel owner, had a dog named “Sport” that he had trained as a watchdog. When Vincent Zarek, a guest at the hotel, leaned over to pet the dog, it bit him. Although Sport had never bitten...

Q: Led Foot drives his car carelessly into another car. The second

Led Foot drives his car carelessly into another car. The second car contains dynamite, which Led had no way of knowing. The collision causes an explosion which shatters a window of a building half a b...

Q: A foul ball struck Marie Uzdavines on the head while she was

A foul ball struck Marie Uzdavines on the head while she was watching the Metropolitan Baseball Club (“The Mets”) play the Philadelphia Phillies at “The Mets” home stadium in New York. The ball came t...

Q: Two-year-old David Allen was bitten by Joseph Whitehead's

Two-year-old David Allen was bitten by Joseph Whitehead's dog while he was playing on the porch at the Allen residence. Allen suffered facial cuts, a severed muscle in his left eye, a hole in his left...

Q: Henry Hughes, who operates a department store, executed the following

Henry Hughes, who operates a department store, executed the following instrument: $2,600 Chicago, March 5, 2015 On July 1, 2012, I promise to pay Daniel Dalziel, or order, the sum of Twenty-Six Hundre...