Marshall v. Winston

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a sheriff and a jailer had no special relationship with a member of the general public
• recognizing duty to prevent inmate released from jail from harming foreseeable victims but holding that plaintiff failed to allege or show that sheriff knew or should have known that inmate intended to attack plaintiff
• recognizing duty to prevent inmate released from jail from harming foreseeable victims but holding that plaintiff failed to allege or show that sheriff knew or should have known that inmate intended to attack plaintiff
• Sheriff and jailer not liable to decedent’s representative after negligently releasing criminal who subsequently murdered decedent.
• “Negligence must be in relation to some person.” (quoting Kent, 167 Va. at 426)
• duty to control actionable only when there is a special relationship

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).