LAW 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Rodenticide
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Brokaw explained in great detail that he needed to know, as precisely as possible, how much the apartments would generate in rent. The final report provided by hauser stated the property was worth ,400,000. Hausersays he should not be responsible because he had reasonably assumed that the same rent would apply to every apartment. If nothing changes, plaintiff still suffers: then defendant did. If plaintiff does not suffer than defendant is cause of loss. (eg. there is a patient with stomach aches and the. Careful doctor finds she has poison and therefore treats her and survives. However in a different situation the careless doctor did nothing and therefore patient died. He has a duty of care, he did breach the stand of care and he did have causation since we know the patient would have survived if the she was diagnosed properly) (eg. 2, same as above except, the patient dies either way since the poison was too far along.
