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U.K.: Injures finger dropping junk mail in letterbox

By Walter Olson, Ted Frank, and David Nieporent

Paul O'Brien of Leeds, Great Britain, says the Royal Mail letterbox in his house is just like every other one in the development and that mail carriers have had no problem using it. Still, he's being sued by cake decorator Joy Goodman, who says her finger was badly hurt when the thing snapped as she was pushing a leaflet, less charitably termed junk mail, through it; she can no longer pursue her trade. Says O'Brien: "I just cannot believe someone who came on to my property uninvited, to put junk read more

Full post as published by Overlawyered on March 05, 2008 (boomark / email).