Court Opinion

ID: 9543519
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 16:46:05.018072+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:10:30.471398
License: Public Domain

BAKES, Chief Justice,
concurring specially.
I concur in Parts I, IIB, III and IV.
As to Part IIA, in my opinion the facts of this case are more like Hilden v. Ball, 117 Idaho 314, 787 P.2d 1122 (1990), than Fussell v. St. Clair, 120 Idaho 591, 818 P.2d 295 (1991). Accordingly, IDJI 230, the single cause proximate cause instruction should have been given rather than the “substantial factor” causation instruction in Instruction No. 16. However, given the outcome in this case, the error is probably harmless.