Hurd v. Woolfork

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that public duty doctrine barred suit against sheriff for failure to execute arrest warrant on plaintiffs’ neighbor where complaint failed to allege that plaintiffs relied upon sheriff to protect them from neighbor
• stating that the “special duty” exception applies where there is a “special relationship” between plaintiff and the public employee that gives rise to a “special duty”
• reasoning that the “duty to keep the peace . . . includes the execution of arrest warrants and is a public duty”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).