Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site hou2g.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!hou2g!scott From: scott@hou2g.UUCP (Racer X) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: $1.4M for hitting a cow (Lawsuits and judges that piss me off) Message-ID: <602@hou2g.UUCP> Date: Fri, 23-Aug-85 10:36:53 EDT Article-I.D.: hou2g.602 Posted: Fri Aug 23 10:36:53 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 19:41:56 EDT References: <279@frog.UUCP> Organization: The Finish Line Lines: 35 >The owner of the land was Digital. The owner of the cow was NOT Digital, >but a farmer who was renting the land. J. Random Farmer does not have $1.4M, >so Digital gets sued. I believe there was some question about the injuries, >though I did not follow the case well enough to remember. I know of a similar occurance of the suer bringing suit against the one with money instead of the one at fault (not to say the owner of the cow above was even at fault). I was recently a witness to an accident on the NJ Turnpike (and nearly injured myself, escaping with only a small dent and scratch on my car). An elderly couple was rear-ended and driven into a guard rail by a drunk driver (some kids in a parents car) going 85 or so. Neither the kid driving nor his parents had enough money to satisfy the victims, so they proceeded to sue GM, *the maker of their car*!!!! There were no defects in their car, nor did any negligence on GM's part contribute to either the cause, unavoidability, or severity of the accident. GM simply was the only party even remotely related to the events who had money. Thank goodness *I* didn't get sued. I don't know if they were successful or not. Scott J. Berry ihnp4!hou2g!scott ***************************************************** * Most of the employees and management at AT&T-Bell * * Laboratories are probably intelligent enough to * * realize these opinions are my own, if anybody's. * * Those who aren't can go to hell. * *****************************************************