Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site gcc-opus.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!harvard!gcc-opus!alien From: alien@gcc-opus.ARPA (Alien Wells) Newsgroups: net.legal Subject: negligent homicide for an arguement Message-ID: <196@gcc-opus.ARPA> Date: Wed, 16-Jan-85 12:36:51 EST Article-I.D.: gcc-opus.196 Posted: Wed Jan 16 12:36:51 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 21-Jan-85 04:21:15 EST References: <121@cadre.UUCP> <6835@watdaisy.UUCP> <465@fisher.UUCP> Reply-To: alien@gcc-opus.UUCP (Alien Wells) Organization: General Computer Company, Cambridge Ma (creators of Ms. Pacman) Lines: 28 Summary: A very interesting case is shaping up here in Ossipee NH. I've waited a while to try to get the facts before posting. Here they are. A Mr **** (I will call him Landlord) owns a property which he is renting. He has 3 tenents (I will call them Tenents) who live there. Landlord goes to court to get Tenents evicted (I do not know if it was for rent non-payment, or what). Landlord wins in court, and gets the eviction notice. Tenents prepare to move out. Landlord demands back rent. Tenents refuse. Landlord parks a tractor in front of a shed which the Tenents own on his property so they cannot move it, and threatens to keep it there until they pay. Now comes the *fun* part. Tenents get very upset because they can't get at their shed. Tenents and Landlord start argueing. Landlord has a heart attack and dies. Landlord has a known history of heart problems. The DA arrests Tenents and brings them to trial. The charge, negligent homicide (usually used for deaths caused by driving accidents). The claim is that Tenents knew of Landlord's heart condition when they entered into the arguement. Thus, they were responsible for his death. I'd laugh myself silly if it wasn't being taken seriously by the court. I mean, it takes two to argue. If Landlord was willing to argue with them, why should they refrain 'because of his health'? Has anyone heard about anything like this before? Alien