Multiple choice

Employees of a municipality opened a street manhole to correct underground faults. Since they could not complete the work the same day, they covered the manhole by canvass and surrounded the same by warning lamps. In the evening, a child of eight years of age came on to the scene and started playing with the lamp when he stumbled and fell into the manhole sustaining burn injuries. The municipality is

  1. not liable as they acted reasonably

  2. liable because a known source of danger caused damage through unforseeable sequence of events

  3. not liable as injury to the child is not foreseeable

  4. liable because they should have completed their work before leaving

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The municipality is liable because a known source of danger caused damage through unforseeable sequence of events.