Court Opinion

ID: 9666719
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 01:26:18.300629+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:15:32.354711
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*234SHORT, Judge
(concurring in part, dissenting in part).
I concur, except as to the reversal of summary judgment for the school district. As to that issue, I respectfully dissent and would affirm the trial court’s decision. The school district had no duty to Anderson after she alighted safely from the bus. Restatement (Second) of Torts § 314A cmt. c (1965). A common carrier is under no special duty to one who has left the vehicle and ceased to become a passenger. Patton v. Minneapolis St. Ry. Co., 247 Minn. 368, 370-71, 77 N.W.2d 433, 435 (1956) (carrier’s duty towards passenger ceases once passenger has a reasonable opportunity of getting beyond danger from the vehicle’s movement); Jam v. Independent School Dist. No. 709, 413 N.W.2d 165, 170 (Minn.App.) (duty of care concerning the transportation of school children ends when the child is left in a place safe for the child), pet. for rev. denied' (Minn. Nov. 24, 1987). It is undisputed that Anderson was not injured on school property or while riding the school bus, and that she was left at a place safe for children. Because the school district had no duty to prevent Shaughnessy from engaging in tortious conduct off school property, the trial court properly dismissed the negligence action against the school district.