Bradley Center, Inc. v. Wessner

How courts have described this case

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• noting existence of a “general duty one owes to all the world not to subject them to an unreasonable risk of harm”
• upholding a jury award in a wrongful death case in which the decedent’s children, who had survivor-ship rights, established that a mental facility was negligent in caring for the patient who killed their mother
• setting forth “a legal duty to conform to a standard of conduct raised by the law for the protection of others against unreasonable risks of harm” as the threshold element in a cause of action for negligence
• “where the intervening criminal acts of third parties are unforeseeable, they will not give rise to liability”
• mental institution held liable for releasing decedent’s estranged husband on an unrestricted weekend pass despite knowing of his intention to kill his wife
• duty of care to third persons when a special relationship based upon physical control exists

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).