The Owner of a Theatre Negligently Failed to Install the Requisite

question 11

Multiple Choice

The owner of a theatre negligently failed to install the requisite number of emergency exit. During the show of Shakespeare's Macbeth, one of the intoxicated viewers got carried away and burned himself. The entire hall was ablaze. There was only one emergency exit. Thus many people were killed in the stampede. Will the theatre owner be liable for negligence?

• A) No, because the intervening cause of an intoxicated viewer burning himself absolves the theatre owner's liability.
• B) No, because the viewer's reaction was completely unforeseeable by any reasonable man of ordinary prudence.
• C) Yes, because the harm was foreseeable and the owner cannot escape his liability.
• D) Yes, because though the harm was unforeseeable, the owner still cannot escape his breach of duty.

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