The defendant rents out inflatable "rooms" where children can bounce inside without hitting

Question

anything sharp. The defendant has repeatedly mended a "corner" of a room, where rips and tears
have occurred due to frequent use. The repairs are not visible. Parents rent such a "room" for a
child's birthday party, inflate it and set it up in their backyard. Children bounce around inside the
room, but one hits the mended "corner", pushes through, and gets injured after hitting the ground.
When that happened, the parents had been in their kitchen, getting cake and ice cream. When the
parents of the injured child sue the defendant for damages for the child's injuries, the defendant claims
that they were contributorily negligent. The parents of the injured child will defeat the claim of
contributory negligence by

A) noting that the defendant rented the "rooms" for profit
B) saying that they had no knowledge of the peril from the mended "corner"
C) claiming that defendant violated state and federal laws
D) claiming that the defendant had been successfully sued before

Answer 1

B