Speeding through a residential neighborhood, Ross Duran “failed to stop at a dead-end, crashing his car through a cinder block wall and slamming into a flowerbed in Joseph Volpe’s back yard.” And then one of Duran’s passengers sued — who? She sued “[homeowner] Volpe and Pardee Construction Co. of Nevada claiming their negligence was at least partially to blame because of the location of the flowerbed behind the wall in Volpe’s back yard.” The case went all the way to the Nevada Supreme Court, which rejected her lawsuit, saying it would be an “undue burden” on residential property owners to make their yards crashworthy.
(“Nevada Supreme Court rejects lawsuit against homeowner”, Las Vegas Sun, Nov. 6) (via Lori Patel, “Today’s Brief”, Law.com, Nov. 7)
Homeowner not liable for garden-wall crash
Speeding through a residential neighborhood, Ross Duran “failed to stop at a dead-end, crashing his car through a cinder block wall and slamming into a flowerbed in Joseph Volpe’s back yard.” And then one of Duran’s passengers sued — who? She sued “[homeowner] Volpe and Pardee Construction Co. of Nevada claiming their negligence was at […]
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