Assignment
Please search the 1948 case Summers v. Tice, and then answer the following questions.
Flag question: Question 1
Question 120 pts
What happened to the Plaintiff?
Group of answer choices
The defendants breached a contract with the plaintiff.
The defendants hit him with his car.
The defendants shot the plaintiff in the eye.
The plaintiff was under surgery and the surgery went wrong.
The plaintiff did not have jurisdiction for the case.
Flag question: Question 2
Question 220 pts
The rule states that when a plaintiff suffers a single indivisible injury, for which the negligence of each of several potential tortfeasors could have been a but-for-cause, but only one of which could have actually been the cause, all the potential tortfeasors are ____________________________ to the plaintiff.
Group of answer choices
50% liable
Jointly and Severally Liable
Severally Liable with But For Cause
Reasonably Liable
Not Liable
Flag question: Question 3
Question 320 pts
Because both defendants were negligent, the court found it would be unjust to make the burden on proof on the plaintiff instead the court decided to:
Group of answer choices
Make the burden of proof on the defendants
Find the plaintiff automatically guilty
Cancel the lawsuit because of its complexity
Randomly pick a defendant to be guilty
Flag question: Question 4
Question 420 pts
Which judge/justice wrote the majority opinion on this case?
Group of answer choices
John W. Shenk
B. Rey Schauer
Jesse W. Carter
Homer R. Spence
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Question 520 pts
Which court published this case?
Group of answer choices
Superior Court of Kern County
Supreme Court of California
District Court
11th Court of Appeals
Supreme Court