Fact Pattern 48-1​ Truck & Transfer Inc. Agrees to Pick Up Two Containers

question 21

Multiple Choice

Fact Pattern 48-1​
Truck & Transfer Inc. agrees to pick up two containers for United Home Products Corporation and store their contents, to be delivered later. While Truck & Transfer unloads one container, the other disappears from the company's loading dock.
-Refer to Fact Pattern 48-1. Truck & Transfer can avoid liability​

• A) ​by proof that Truck & Transfer was not negligent.
• B) ​by proof that Truck & Transfer's loading dock is in a high-crime area.
• C) ​by proof that United Home was negligent in hiring TTC.
• D) ​under any circumstances.

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