Author Question: Unseasonably high flooding threatens to engulf a car on the street. The defendant breaks the car's ... (Read 63 times)

mydiamond · **on:** Aug 3, 2018

Unseasonably high flooding threatens to engulf a car on the street. The defendant breaks the car's
window and hot wires it to drive it to higher ground, safe from the flooding. If the owner of the car
sues the defendant for the cost of repairing the broken window, the defendant will

A) avoid liability due to private necessity
B) have to pay to replace the window
C) avoid liability because of a mistake of fact
D) avoid liability due to a public necessity

Question 2

If parties with a dispute look to a third party to help them negotiate to a resolution of the problem,
then they are engaging in

A) mini-trials B) litigation C) arbitration D) mediation