Delaney v. Reynolds

After Kathleen Delaney shot and gravely injured herself with John M. Reynolds’s gun, she brought this action against him. The action is grounded on allegations that although Reynolds knew that Delaney had serious emotional and mental problems, including thoughts of suicide, he nonetheless negligently kept his loaded gun in a place readily accessible to her. The judge granted Reynolds’s motion for summary judgment on the ground that Delaney’s independent act of shooting herself was a superseding cause of her injuries. We conclude *240that whether Delaney intended to commit suicide was one of…