Mitigation of Damages

[Micah Schwartzman]

There is an interesting case from the 1930s involving a Christian  
Scientist. The cite is Lange v. Hoyt, 114 Conn. 590.

Micah J. Schwartzman
Associate Professor of Law
University of Virginia School of Law
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On Jul 10, 2009, at 3:57 PM, Douglas Laycock wrote:

> From time to time we have discussed on the list cases of Jehovah's  
> Witnesses who are injured by a tortfeasor, who refuse a blood  
> transfusion, and whose injury is aggravated or whose cure takes  
> longer as a result.  The cases go both ways.  I am not trying to  
> start that discussion up again, but I have a related factual question.
>
> Has anyone ever seen a similar case involving a Christian  
> Scientist?  I haven't done any serious looking, but I don't recall  
> one.  That seems a little odd, given that we seem to have a  
> Jehovah's Witness case every few years.
>
> Douglas Laycock
> Yale Kamisar Collegiate Professor of Law
> University of Michigan Law School
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