Comments on: Trick-or-Tort http://siouxsielaw.com/2009/10/11/trick-or-tort/ Good Lawyers Wear Black Wed, 16 May 2012 16:54:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Me http://siouxsielaw.com/2009/10/11/trick-or-tort/#comment-9 Thu, 15 Oct 2009 06:38:06 +0000 http://siouxsielaw.wordpress.com/?p=8#comment-9 “For example, last year a witch scared her clumsy Gladys Kravitz-type neighbor in Baltimore on Halloween. In this case, the neighbor fell and broke her foot and promptly filed a lawsuit for $25,000.”

Wow, I totally didn’t get that set of facts from my reading. She didn’t actually scare the neighbor, but she was acting as a witch to ‘scare’ the kids, and her neighbors went onto her property to join in. It was then the neighbor tripped. BIG difference here from the original fact pattern you set up, where you make it sound like the defendant scared the plaintiff who was then hurt when trying to escape/leave/run-away.

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