Legal Opinion
Parrilla v. King County
Court of Appeals of Washington
Decided May 7, 2007No. 57495-7-IPublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
¶1 An actor owes another a duty to guard against the foreseeable criminal conduct of a third party where the actor’s affirmative act has exposed the other to a recognizable high degree of risk of harm through such misconduct, which a reasonable person would have taken into account.1 In this case, Elea and Roy Parrilla allege that a King Comity bus driver parked the bus he was driving on the side of Martin Luther King Jr. Way (MLK) in Seattle and exited the bus, leaving the engine running and a visibly erratic passenger alone on board. The passenger drove the bus down MLK and collided with…
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