Kooly v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that state had no duty of care to prevent fatal sledding accident where plaintiff’s injury was “more closely connected with the conduct of those other than [the defendant]”
• “Determining whether a duty exists in the type of case presented is the first analytical step in deciding whether a negligence action can be maintained.”
• declining to impose liability despite the fact that harm was foreseeable because the burden on the defendant and the consequences to the community were too harsh
• “[I]t is not possible to make the thousands of miles of state rights-of-way adjacent to highways safe for sledding. Any effort to do so would be both expensive and futile.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).