Court Opinion

ID: 9724376
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 10:54:27.896863+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:24:59.793286
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SUNDBY, J.
(dissenting). I conclude that Sheridan states a claim against the individual police officers and against the city. Therefore, I respectfully dissent.
The state has a common-law duty to exercise reasonable care to protect from harm someone the state has taken into custody. "Jailers and other custodians owe a duty to provide reasonable protection to prisoners and patients and others in custody . . . and are held liable for failure to do so even though they themselves may take no direct action in causing the harm. ” Prosser and *431Keeton on the Law of Torts § 132 at 1063 (5th ed. 1984) (footnotes omitted). A discretionary/ministerial acts analysis is inappropriate to this common-law duty. As to the city's liability, see also Maynard v. City of Madison, 101 Wis. 2d 273, 282-84, 304 N.W.2d 163, 168-69 (Ct. App. 1981). Maynard appears to be based on the city's assumption of a duty to a person, which it negligently performed.