Rhodes v. Illinois Central Gulf Railroad

How courts have described this case

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• finding that the voluntary undertaking of the defendant railroad was not a duty to ensure that aid was provided to the injured plaintiff, but at most, reporting the plaintiffs presence to the police
• finding that the voluntary undertaking of the defendant railroad was not a duty to ensure that aid was provided to the injured plaintiff, but at most, reporting the plaintiff’s presence to the police
• rejecting an argument that “a party voluntarily undertakes a legal duty to rescue an injured stranger by simply calling the police”
• no duty to promptly assist intoxicated individual discovered in warming house of commuter train system
• no duty to promptly assist intoxicated individual discovered in warming house of commuter train system
• “Where the law does not impose a duty, one will not generally be created by a defendant’s rules or internal guidelines.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).