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Question 420

Appeared in Year: 2008

Question MCQ▾

PRINCIPLES

1. A person is liable for negligence, if he fails to take care of his neighbor՚s interest.

2. A neighbor is anyone whose interests should have been foreseeable by a reasonable man while carrying on his activities.

FACTS

A cricket match was going on in a closed door stadium. A cricket fan who could not get into the stadium was watching the game by climbing up a nearby tree and sitting there. The cricket ball in the course of the game went out of the stadium and hit this person and injured him. He filed a suit against the organizers.

Possible Decisions

(a) The organizers are liable to compensate the injured person.

(b) The organizers are not liable to compensate the injured person.

(c) The injured person should have avoided the place where he might be hit by the cricket ball.

Possible Reasons

I) The organizers are responsible for the people inside the stadium.

ii) The organizers could not have foreseen somebody watching the game by climbing up a tree.

iii) A person crazy about something must pay the price for that.

iv) The organizers shall be liable to everybody likely to watch the game.

Choices

Choice (4)Response

a.

(c) (i)

b.

(a) (iii)

c.

(a) (iv)

d.

(b) (ii)

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