Brown v. Kendall | |
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Court | Supreme Court of Massachusetts |
Full case name | George Brown vs. George K. Kendall |
Decided | October 1850 |
Citation | 60 Mass. 292, 6 Cush. 292 |
Court membership | |
Judge sitting | Lemuel Shaw |
Case opinions | |
reversed the judgment in favor of the claimant and ordered a new trial |
Brown v. Kendall, 60 Mass. 292 (1850), was a case credited as one of the first appearances of the reasonable person standard in United States tort law.