Brown v. Childress

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• teenage vandals burned by flash fire that occurred when, after the close of business, they opened service station restroom door and struck match to light cigarette
• teenage vandals burned by flash fire that occurred when, after the close of business, they opened service station restroom door and struck match to light cigarette
• evidence of past vandalism of gas station restroom sufficient for jury to find that vandalism of restroom in future was foreseeable
• jury could reasonably conclude that previous vandalisms of gas station restroom together with other conditions in restroom rendered injury to members of the public foreseeable
• “Where the circumstances make it likely that defendant’s negligence will result in injuries to others and where this negligence is a substantial factor in causing the injuries sustained, the requirement of proximate causation is satisfied.”
• criminal act of third party is not an intervening cause if reasonably foreseeable

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