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SANDBORG v. BLUE EARTH COUNTY

No. C6-99-243.

615 N.W.2d 61 (2000)

Carlyn M. SANDBORG, Trustee for the Next of Kin of Robert H. Sandborg, Jr., petitioner, Appellant, v. BLUE EARTH COUNTY, et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

July 27, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patton, Hoverstein & Berg, P.A., Keith L. Deike, Waseca, for appellant.

Johnson & Lindberg, P.A., Roger L. Rowlette, Minneapolis, for respondents.

Heard, considered, and decided by the court en banc.

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...

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