Russell v. City of Columbia

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• city liable where its officers told persons providing aid to leave the victim with them
• \[A] complaint is sufficient if it states any cause of action or it appears that the plaintiff is entitled to any relief whatsoever.\
• city liable where its officers told persons providing aid to leave the victim with them
• “Under common law, even where there is no duty to act but an act is voluntarily undertaken, the actor assumes the duty to use due care.”
• intoxicated person allowed to wander off

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).