Paying for damage caused by a child in a store
Question
Hello,
My young daughter broke something in the supermarket. Do I have to pay?
Answer
Shalom u’vracha.
You are obligated to pay.
Source
See Choshen Mishpat 390:12. One can also obligate on the basis of the law of one who places his fellow’s animal on his fellow’s standing grain (ibid. 394:3), where the Rashba holds that one is liable as a damaging person, and so rules the Rema there.
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