Steve Simple Negligence Case

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Steve Simple is a pledge in Zeta Iota Tau (ZIT) fraternity at Minor State Teachers College (MSTC). As part of his pledge duties, he is sent to climb the campus water tower to repaint the fraternity’s Greek letters, which had faded in the last year. (The tower has been covered, virtually throughout its existence, with graffiti placed on it by students) The night Steve climbs the tower a tremendous thunderstorm is in progress, making the steps quite slippery and exposing anyone climbing the tower to a great danger of being hit by lightning. Fortified by a six-pack of warm Hudepohl beer ($1.89 at the local convenience store), Steve nonetheless decides to make the attempt. Unfortunately, Steve is electrocuted halfway up the tower by a short circuit in the tower’s pumping mechanism. The short circuit was the result of a failure to perform proper maintenance (this being deferred by MSTC so that it could pay higher faculty salaries) and was something that had happened before (although only pigeons had been fried in the past).
Negligence is when someone acts in a careless way and causes another individual to get injured. Under this law, negligence cases must demonstration the defendant’s carelessness caused harm to the plaintiff. Even if negligence is …show more content…
Proximate cause evaluates when the negligent party is no longer responsible for the consequences of their actions. It’s the relationship between an event and an injury. At what point is Steve no longer liable for his actions? Before he made the attempt to climb the tower, Steve was aware that is was raining and he knew he had been drinking. In my opinion, he was liable up until that point. One Steve got electrocuted by the hanging wire, the fault is now of MSTC. They had the duty of keeping the maintenance up on the tower. The fact that they were aware of pigeons being fried due to their negligence, demonstrates that they were full aware of the dangers of climbing the water
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