Title: Ken-Crest Services, Inc. v. Shively
Citation: N/A
Docket Number: 89, 2001
State: Delaware
Issuer: Delaware Supreme Court
Date: March 14, 2001

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE 
 
KEN-CREST SERVICES, INC., a 
Pennsylvania corporation, 
 
Defendant Below- 
Appellant, 
 
v. 
 
DANIEL SHIVELY and KURT 
SHIVELY, SR., 
 
Plaintiffs Below- 
Appellees.  
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§  No. 89, 2001 
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§  Court Below—Superior Court 
§  of the State of Delaware, 
§  in and for New Castle County 
§  C.A. No. 96C-05-316 
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Submitted: February 27, 2001 
  Decided: 
March 14, 2001 
 
Before VEASEY, Chief Justice, HOLLAND, and STEELE, Justices. 
 
 
O R D E R 
 
This 14th day of March 2001, it appears to the Court that: 
(1) 
The defendant below, Ken-Crest Services, Inc., has petitioned this 
Court, pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 42, to appeal from an interlocutory 
ruling of the Superior Court dated January 26, 2001.  The Superior Court’s 
ruling denied Ken-Crest’s motion for summary judgment. Among other things, 
the Superior Court held that Ken-Crest, which provides residential facilities and 
support services to mentally impaired residents, owed a duty to the plaintiffs to 
take reasonable measures to protect them from a dangerous resident in Ken-
 
 
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Crest’s facility and to warn them of that resident’s reasonably foreseeable 
dangerous propensities. 
(2) 
On February 23, 2001, the Superior Court refused to certify an 
interlocutory appeal to this Court. 
(3) 
Applications for interlocutory review are addressed to the sound 
discretion of this Court and are granted only in extraordinary cases. 
(4) 
In the exercise of its discretion, this Court has concluded that the 
application for interlocutory review does not meet the requirements of Supreme 
Court Rule 42(b) and should be refused. 
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the within 
interlocutory appeal is REFUSED.   
BY THE COURT: 
 
/s/ Randy J. Holland 
Justice