Court Opinion

ID: 9477845
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 06:32:55.965917+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:46:05.080690
License: Public Domain

NICHOLS, Senior Circuit Judge,
concurring:
I join in the judgment and in Judge Kravitch’s opinion. The dissent would extract a triable issue of fact primarily from opinion testimony given by an affidavit which would fault some or all of the defendants for not having trained, if the county, or the officers for not having been trained, to respond with better equipment *659and more perfect technique to the emergency at hand. It must be recalled that these officers were highway patrolmen called in by frantic radio messages from their assigned beats. It was not their regular duty. They might as well have been ordinary citizens who responded to a call to save human life in some desperate emergency. If the county should have trained and equipped them perfectly for this unforeseen task, it should have so trained and equipped all its citizens. A triable issue of fact is not generated by opinions, apparently arrived at without a full appreciation of the underlying facts. If the rule were otherwise, every litigant would possess the means to thwart summary judgment against him, and we would be back with the old procedure of trying every case.