Court Opinion

ID: 9724393
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 10:55:13.452638+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:24:59.935995
License: Public Domain

SABERS, Justice
(concurring specially).
I write specially to point out that, despite the statement to the contrary by the majority opinion, the trial court’s decision was not “properly” based on the “Restatement complicity rule.” I also take issue with the majority’s language that:
The facts of this case do not support that ‘Sittner was justified in concluding that Klock was not an unfit person;’ rather, the facts appear to preponderate that Sittner was reckless in employing Klock.
This language appears to improperly apply the wrong test. The test is whether genuine issues of material fact exist. They do exist. See, Wilson, 157 N.W.2d at 21. The majority even says so in the very same paragraph. As correctly stated therein, it is “for the jury, not the court,” or this court to “conclude” whether or not the facts “appear to preponderate” on Klock’s fitness or Sittner’s recklessness.