Hoang v. Man Chong Wong

The failure of the defendant landlord to provide heat and hot water to the plaintiffs’ apartment was not a proximate cause of the personal injuries sustained by the infant plaintiff. While the defendant’s conduct gave rise to the plaintiff mother’s attempt to provide a substitute supply of hot water so that the infant plaintiff could bathe, the intervening act of the mother and the son walking into each other while the mother sought to transport a pot of boiled water into the bathroom brought about the injuries sustained by the infant plaintiff. Those injuries would not have resulted from the…