Bevis v. Terrace View Partners, LP, 244 Cal. Rptr. 3d 797 (2019)

Citation: Bevis v. Terrace View Partners, LP, 244 Cal. Rptr. 3d 797 (2019)
Parent Document: Bevis v. Terrace View Partners, LP, 244 Cal. Rptr. 3d 797 (2019)
Jurisdiction: California (state)
Effective Date: 2019-02-28
Original Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/6240337/bevis-v-terrace-view-partners-lp/ ↗

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On the special verdict form, the jury found defendants liable for "NEGLIGENCE/NEGLIGENCE PER SE." It is unclear what acts or omissions of defendants the jury viewed as constituting negligence. The court instructed the jury: "Negligence is the failure to use reasonable care to prevent harm to oneself or to others. [¶] A person can be negligent by acting or by failing to act. A person is negligent if he or she does something that a reasonably careful person would not do in the same situation or fails to do something that a reasonably careful person would do in the same situation. [¶] You must decide how a reasonably careful person would have acted in defendants' situation."13 As noted, the court also instructed the jury that plaintiffs sought "overpayment of rent" as both contract and tort economic damages and that the jury could award damages for overpayment of rent under plaintiffs' negligence theory.

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