Legal Opinion
Sandborg v. Blue Earth County
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Decided July 27, 2000No. C6-99-243PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
RUSSELL A. ANDERSON, Justice.
When a jailer has a legal duty to protect a detainee from a reasonably foreseeable risk of suicide and the detainee commits suicide, is the fault, if any, of the detainee for his death to be determined and apportioned with the fault, if any, of the jailer?
Appellant sued Blue Earth County and two jail employees for wrongful death after her son, Robert Sandborg (Sandborg), 1 committed suicide while in custody at the Blue Earth County Jail. At trial the jury was instructed that if the employees of the county and Sandborg were found at fault and the fault of…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Estelle v. GambleSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Larson v. LarsonSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1985
- Hamilton v. Commissioner of Public SafetySupreme Court of Minnesota · 1999
- Donaldson v. Young Women's Christian Ass'n of DuluthSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1995
- Knutson v. Arrigoni Brothers Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1966
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