Sue, from Kanab, traveled to Salt Lake City to attend a busi…
Sue, from Kanab, traveled to Salt Lake City to attend a business meeting. Her sister, Esther, lives in Salt Lake City and consequently, Sue made arrangements to spend a couple of days with her following the business meeting. The next morning while dressing in Esther’s guest bathroom, Sue realizes that she packed a mismatched outfit: the color of her skirt doesn’t match her blouse. Luckily, Esther wears the same size and lends Sue a skirt the same color as her top blouse. Sue’s duty of care would be a duty of:
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For some time before he died, Robert Zimmerman allowed his live-in girlfriend, Joan Robertson, to assist him with his financial affairs. Zimmerman and Robertson owned joint bank accounts through which Robertson had access to Zimmerman’s funds. Robertson also had access to Zimmerman’s safe-deposit box. Zimmerman gave Robertson a number of municipal bond certificates, stating only that Robertson was to put them “in safekeeping.” The bonds had been placed in a series of large envelopes, each of which also contained a sheet of paper on which was written the name of one of Zimmerman’s relatives. One of the envelopes contained bonds valued at $22,000 and contained a sheet of paper with Robertson’s name on it. When Zimmerman died, Robertson distributed the envelopes to the people whose names were in the envelopes and retained the bonds in the envelope with her own name in it. The administrator of Zimmerman’s estate claimed that all of the bonds belonged to the estate. Robertson asserted that the bonds were gifts. The court most likely held that:
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Professor Grant accidentally shot a wild animal while hunting for deer on his client’s ranch in Kanab, Utah, where he had permission from his client to be hunting. If the animal was on the Endangered Species list, would he be in violation of the Endangered Species Act (ESA)?
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Judith loves a particular privately owned field in the country so much that she decides to try to adversely possess it. She pitches a tent each night in a different part of the field and makes sure to avoid the true owners and other people who access the land whenever they enter. Judith uses low impact techniques so that she leaves virtually no evidence of where she has been. She does this for the full statutory period. Has she gained an ownership interest in the land?
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