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· 7/28/1994

Shepard v. Mielke

Citations

  • 877 P.2d 220
  • 75 Wash. App. 201

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that convalescent home owed its resident a duty to protect her from criminal actions by visitors where resident “could not lock her door, screen visitors, or generally provide for her own safety” and was at the home “precisely because she was unable to perform these tasks herself.”
  • convalescent center had a duty to protect resident who suffered brain damage and could not lock her door, screen visitors, or protect herself
  • sexual assault on convalescent home resident

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Judges: Sweeney, Munson, Schultheis

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