Usually, if a child swats another child with a toy dinosaur, it does not cause catastrophic injury. Usually, if a child gets hurt at a daycare, it is the daycare owners who get dragged into court. And usually, if someone goes to court claiming someone else owes them thousands of dollars to compensate for a finger that three years ago was “essentially severed at the bone but still attached,” they bring along some medical records to illustrate such a gruesome claim. A court case newly decided in Grande Prairie, Alta., bucked all these trends. It also offered what a judge called a...