Reference no: EM133492329

Background: Partner Carter is representing a client, Walter Walker, who has had a civil claim filed against him. The civil claim is based upon a cause of action for the tort of trespass.

Three months ago, Walker was relaxing with an iced tea on his porch when he heard a small child crying loudly. The sound seemed to be coming from his neighbor's garage. Walker got up from the porch and ran across his neighbor's lawn. Although his neighbor, Mr. Loud, had posted a no trespassing sign on his property, Walker ignored the sign.

Walker looked in the garage and saw what looked to be a blanket on the floor with something under it moving furiously. He continued to hear crying and the crying was getting more and more frantic. Walker checked the garage door and saw that it was locked, as was as the window that he was peering through. He then noticed that there was a rake and a baseball bat leaning against the garage. He picked up the baseball bat and smashed the garage window. He then crawled through the window. In crawling through the window, he also knocked over several cans of paint that ran all over the garage floor and onto some furniture stored there.

Walker then ran towards the moving blanket. When Walker lifted up the blanket, he saw that it was a cat that had been trapped there. The cat jumped up and ran out of the garage. As Walker turned to leave the garage, Mr. Loud drove in the driveway.

Loud is now suing Walley for $12,000 worth of damages to the window, garage floor, lost paint, and furniture that was ruined by the paint.

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