Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 5/2/1983

Mullins v. Pine Manor College

Citations

449 N.E.2d 331
389 Mass. 47
1983 Mass. LEXIS 1417

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holding that college had a duty to protect a female student abducted from her campus dormitory and assaulted in another campus building
holding that, because negligence typically involves questions of fact, negligence actions are usually inappropriate for sum mary judgment
holding that the employee, the party directly at fault, may be held liable to the person harmed for the full amount of his loss
finding that a college that voluntarily provides security guards on campus must exercise reasonable care when it does so
recognizing duty where risk of harm to student \was not only foreseeable but was actually foreseen\
disregarding cases from jurisdictions relying on status of landowner to victim and relying on special relationship to form a special duty

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Judges: Hennessey, Wilkins, Liacos, Nolan, O'Connor

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