Pope v. St. John’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “... Irrespective of any contract relationship between St. John and Pope, the law imposed upon St. John a duty to act with ordinary care toward Pope if the circumstances were such that a reasonably prudent person in St. John’s position would recognize that his acts, unless done with ordinary care, would place Pope in danger. [[Image here]] By undertaking affirmatively to identify Pope’s ailment based on the information supplied by Suarez, St. John assumed a legal duty to act with ordinary care in arriving at his identification and his consequent determination of whether he was qualified to treat the ailment.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. St. John v. Pope