A hotel guest went swimming alone in the hotel pool at 2:00
a.m. His family sued the hotel, claiming negligence per se because the hotel did not have a shepard's hook by the pool, as required by law. True or false: The doctrine of negligence per se will result in liability of the hotel in this case.
a.m. and drowned. He was not discovered until 8:00

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The doctrine of negligence per se requires the violation of a statute or regulation that was intended to prevent the type of harm that occurred. In this case, the absence of a shepard's hook was not related to the cause of the drowning and was not intended to prevent such harm. Therefore, the hotel cannot be held liable under the doctrine of negligence per se.

A Hotel Guest Went Swimming Alone in the Hotel Pool