Sickel v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “[T]he law does not punish a person’s failure to act unless that failure to act constitutes a breach of that person’s legal duty.”
• “[A] person employed as a lifeguard at a beach or swimming pool assumes a duty of care toward the swimmers.”
• \It is true that the cruelty to animals statute fails to specify which persons have a duty to care for particular animals. But we are authorized to look to the common law to remedy this omission.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).