HOPPE BY DYKEMA v. KANDIYOHI COUNTY

No. C0-94-1627.

543 N.W.2d 635 (1996)

Georgia HOPPE by Russell DYKEMA, her guardian, Respondent, v. KANDIYOHI COUNTY, defendant and third-party plaintiff, petitioner, Appellant, v. GREEN LAKE STATE BANK, third-party defendant, Respondent, Paul Bengston, Third-Party Defendant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

February 16, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Ford, Kenneth H. Bayliss, St. Cloud, for Appellant.

Dennis Helseth, David McLaughlin, Elbow Lake, for Respondent.

Heard, considered and decided by the court en banc.


OPINION

KEITH, Chief Justice.

Defendant Kandiyohi County obtained further review of a decision of the court of appeals construing Minn.Stat. § 626.557 (1994), the Vulnerable Adults Reporting Act, to allow a civil cause of action against the county for its alleged negligence in failing to timely investigate reports of abuse of a vulnerable adult or to intervene. Hoppe v. Kandiyohi County, No. C0-94-1627, 1995 WL 70167 (Minn.App. filed February...

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