American Family Mutual Insurance v. Grim

How courts have described this case

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• upholding judgment that defendant was liable under concerted-action theory for church burning 9 down because he entered church with other boys and despite facts he did not follow other boys into attic where fire originated or light any torches while in attic
• upholding judgment that defendant was liable under concerted-action theory for church burning down because he entered church with other boys and despite facts he did not follow other boys into attic where fire originated or light any torches while in attic
• “Similarly, under an aiding-abetting theory, it was a natural and foreseeable consequence of the activity Hamilton helped Welch to undertake.” (emphasis added)
• church break-in foreseeably leads to fire caused by unextinguished torches
• church break-in foreseeably leads to fire caused by unextinguished torches
• “As for the second issue in aiding-abetting, the extent of liability, the test from Cobb and Grim appears to be that a person who assists a tortious act may be liable for other reasonably foreseeable acts done in connection with it.” (emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).