Note: Part of your job for today's
class is to sort through the facts of Winterbottom and Donoghue.
Each involve several parties. Try to figure out how they are
related. I'll try to post a diagram here later (after the class).
"The rule that you are to love your neighbor becomes in law, you must
not injure your neighbor; and the lawyer's question, who is my
neighbor ? receives a restricted reply. You must take reasonable
care to avoid acts or omissions which you can reasonably foresee
would be likely to injure your neighbor. Who, then, in law is my
neighbor? The answer seems to be-persons who are so closely and
directly affected by my act that I ought reasonably to have them in
contemplation as being so affected when I am directing my mind to the
acts or omissions which are called in question."
Donoghue v. Stevenson, per Lord Atkin.
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