Waldo v. Moore

McMurray, Presiding Judge.

Plaintiff Alice Waldo, a social guest in the home of defendant Margaree Moore, brought this tort action to recover for the second degree burns she sustained from scalding hot water in the shower. The trial court directed verdict in favor of defendant, and plaintiff appeals. Held:

*798Because the jury is authorized to conclude that Moore’s intentional act of raising the water temperature coupled with her negligence in failing to alert her social guest to this fact after the guest announced her intention to bathe amounted to wilful and wanton behavior on Moore’s part, we…