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While attending a baseball game cheering for the home team a fan of the other team sneaks up behind jack and hits jack on the head with a hard piece of pretxel injuring jack. Jack has no ideas he is about to be hit an dis embarrassed when his friends see that he was injured by a pretzel. Which of the following torts has the fan committed?

a) assault and battery.
b) battery and negligent infliction of emotional distress.
c) battery.
d) assault.
e) assault, battery, and negligent infliction of emotional distress.

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Answer:

C) Battery

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From the question we are informed about an instance, While attending a baseball game cheering for the home team a fan of the other team sneaks up behind jack and hits jack on the head with a hard piece of pretxel injuring jack. Jack has no ideas he is about to be hit an dis embarrassed when his friends see that he was injured by a pretzel. In this case, The torts that the fan has committed is the battery. A tort as regards common law jurisdiction can be regarded as a civil wrong which make a claimant to count losses/ harm which resulted in legal liability on the part of the person that committed the tortious act. These could be invasion of privacy as well as injuries

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