Arms v. City of Knoxville

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that foreseeability inquiry requires showing only that “general character and probability of the injury be foreseeable”
• third party causing property damage through unauthorized use of defendant's idling front-end loader could be reasonably foreseeable consequence of defendant's failure to secure equipment
• issue of proximate cause may be resolved as a matter of law at summary judgment stage when plaintiff has no reasonable expectation of proving that the injury was a foreseeable result of defendant’s negligence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).