Phillips v. Deihm

How courts have described this case

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• finding that victim of sexual abuse had cause of action against pedophile's wife who was allegedly aware of, but failed to prevent, the abuse that occurred in the marital home and pickup truck
• finding that victim of sexual abuse had cause of action against pedophile’s wife who was allegedly aware of, but failed to prevent, the abuse that occurred in the marital home and pickup truck
• finding that grandfather's wife's failure to act to prevent the sexual abuse by grandfather against minor was not a reasonable exercise of parental discretion; therefore, wife was not entitled to parental immunity
• stating that the jury’s review of charts not admitted into evidence was not grounds for a new trial because “[i]t was not shown that anything unfairly prejudicial to defendant was on the charts.”
• grandmother with whom child-plaintiff resided had a statutory duty to prevent sexual abuse by grandfather
• “This Court will not search for authority to sustain or reject a party’s position”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).