Singleton v. Harris Family Trust

By Judge Robert L. Harris, Sr.

The parties, by counsel, appeared before the Court on August 24, 1992, upon the Plaintiff’s Motion in Limine. The Plaintiff sustained severe burns from scalding water in a bathtub while bathing at his brother’s apartment. It is alleged by the Plaintiff that the proximate cause of his injuries was the Defendants’ negligently allowing a residential water heater to produce excessively hot water. Because of evidence that the Plaintiff’s cognitive abilities are significantly impaired (approximately equal to those of a six-year old infant), his counsel sought to have…