Hughes v. Beta Upsilon Building Ass'n

How courts have described this case

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• holding that nonfeasance cannot render a defendant hable unless the defendant had a duty to affirmatively protect the plaintiff from a danger that it did not create because of a special relationship with that plaintiff
• holding that nonfeasance cannot render a defendant liable unless the defendant had a duty to affirmatively protect the plaintiff from a danger that it did not create because of a special relationship with that plaintiff
• “[Duty] arises only from a relationship that society recognizes as sufficient to create the duty. Just as control and foreseeability are factors in a duty analysis, so is the relationship of the parties.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).