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[quote user="jeaton"] [quote user="Bucyrus"] If canoe renters trespassing on the bridge were so common that the canoe rental outfit should have known about it, does it not follow that the NS should have also known about it?    And if the canoe rental outfit should be held liable for not warning canoe renters about the danger of trespassing on the bridge, should not NS also be held liable for not preventing people from trespassing on the bridge?  [/quote] I don't know, but I wouldn't be surprised to find that NS has posted "Danger, No Trespassing" signs on or about the bridge.  What would you do?  Have a security guard patrol the bridge?  Hang concertina wire?  Put up gates? [/quote] Well, if it were up to me, I would not hold the canoe rental company or the NS liable for the death.  But if you construct a case where the canoe rental company should have taken action because they knew about the hazard, then the same reasoning should apply to the NS as well.  If trespassing on the bridge was so common, it seems reasonable to conclude that NS should have known about it.  And if they knew about it, they should have known that a sign was not preventing people from trespassing.  <SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">So they had to know that there was a particularly high probability of somebody getting killed on that bridge.
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