Court Opinion

ID: 9742417
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 21:13:30.569272+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:24:32.504199
License: Public Domain

MR. JUSTICE GOLDENHERSH, dissenting: I dissent. The majority opinion fails to take into account the principles of law clearly enunciated in Restatement (Second) of Torts, secs. 302B and 449, and on the basis of pure conjecture concludes that nothing that defendant’s employee could have done would have saved the deceased from death or injury. The majority’s polemic on the subject of the hazards which would be created by an application of established legal principles to this case finds little support in logic and none whatsoever in the legal authorities. This case comes to us only on the pleadings and I agree with the appellate court that “Whether what defendants did or did not do proximately caused the injury that befell plaintiff’s decedent, whether Blanche Murphy had the time so she could, under the circumstances alleged, exercise the kind of judgment expected of a person of ordinary prudence, were questions of fact which, from all the evidence, must be decided by a trier of the facts, judge or jury.” I would affirm the judgment of the appellate court.