BROWN v. AVERY

No. 91-249.

850 P.2d 612 (1993)

Teresa BROWN, Appellant (Plaintiff), v. Officer AVERY; and City of Laramie, Wyoming, Appellees (Defendants).

Supreme Court of Wyoming.

April 9, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary T. Kloeckner, Cheyenne, for appellant.

Joseph B. Meyer, Atty. Gen., John W. Renneisen, Deputy Atty. Gen., and Dennis Coll, Sr. Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee Avery.

C.M. Aron, Aron & Hennig, Laramie, for appellee City of Laramie.

Before MACY, C.J., THOMAS, CARDINE and GOLDEN, JJ., and URBIGKIT, J., Retired.


THOMAS, Justice.

The issues in this case evolve from the failure of a police officer to arrest a driver whom the officer had stopped for a traffic violation and whom the officer realized had consumed alcoholic beverages. The significant legal question relates to whether there was a causal relationship, qualifying under the concept of proximate cause, between the failure to arrest and a roll over of the vehicle driven by the individual who was not arrested. The case...

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