Sams v. Oelrich

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• having taken an escaped convict to a hospital emergency room for medical attention, a sheriff's deputy had a duty to reasonably control the convict who was then in his custody for the benefit of other persons populating the ER
• having taken an escaped convict to a hospital emergency room for medical attention, a sheriff's deputy had a duty to reasonably control the convict who was then in his custody for the benefit of other persons populating the ER
• deputy owed duty to innocent persons in hospital emergency room to reasonably control the acts of escapee taken to hospital by the police
• officers who took a prisoner in their custody to a hospital emergency room owed a special duty of care to others in the hospital who were injured by the prisoner when he attempted to escape
• special relationship between sheriff and prisoner

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).