Thurman v. Applebrook Country Dayschool, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that “the standard of care in a negligent childcare supervision case is that of a reasonably prudent person under like circumstances” and describing “the circumstances of this case” to include “when the sleeping infant is one of 15 many in a daycare setting”
• expert opinion testimony, even on the ultimate issue to be decided by the factfinder, is admissible if the expert’s conclusion is beyond the ken of the average layperson
• expert opinion testimony, even on the ultimate issue to be decided by the factfinder, is admissible if the expert's conclusion is beyond the ken of the average layperson
• “[A] person who undertakes the control and supervision of a child . . . has [a] duty to use reasonable care to protect the child from . . . reasonably foreseeable risk of harm.” (citation and punctuation omitted; emphasis in original)
• “[A] person who undertakes the control and supervision of a child . . . has [a] duty to use reasonable care to protect the child from . . . . reasonably foreseeable risk of harm.” (emphasis in original; citation and punctuation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).