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From: dwv@ihuxu.UUCP (D. W. Vollman)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Who is liable?!
Message-ID: <301@ihuxu.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 30-Apr-84 13:36:04 EDT
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Posted: Mon Apr 30 13:36:04 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 1-May-84 07:41:45 EDT
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL
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If you want to talk about assinine decisions, look a this one which
is absolutely true. A student pilot was doing some solo work when his plane
ran out of fuel and crashed. The widow sued and won because nobody
told the pilot that the plane would not fly without fuel! Pretty good!

I do know a Lawyer who does defense work for some claims like this
and he said the following things will cause you almost automaticlly
to lose your case.

	1. Plaintiff is a widow.
	2. Plaintiff is in a wheelchair.
	3. The estate of the Plaintiff has left children.

He says in these cases, the jury is going to award no matter how stupid the
act was. Maybe we need bench trials for these kinds of suits. Then
I won't have to worry about being sued because I was hit by a drunk
who said I had no business being on the road.

						Dave Vollman
						AT&T Bell Laboratories
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