Purdy v. Public Administrator

How courts have described this case

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• listing common carrier/passenger relationship among \special circumstances in which there is sufficient authority and ability to control conduct of third persons that [courts] have identified a duty to do so\
• “The question of whether a member or group of society owes a duty of care to reasonably avoid injury to another is of course a question of law for the courts.”
• \The question of whether a member or group of society owes a duty of care to reasonably avoid injury to another is of course a question of law for the courts.\
• “The question of whether a member or group of society owes a duty of care to reasonably avoid injury to another is of course a question of law for the courts.”
• where health facility had no authority to control actions of residents, it was not liable for injuries caused to plaintiff by elderly resident though health facility was aware that resident’s condition could cause blackouts
• \The question of whether a member or group of society owes a duty of care to reasonably avoid injury to another is of course a question of law for the courts.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).