PARRILLA v. KING COUNTY

No. 57495-7-I.

157 P.3d 879 (2007)

Elea D. PARRILLA, a single person, and Roy R.T. Parrilla, a single person, Appellants, v. KING COUNTY, a political subdivision of the State of Washington; and King County Metro, a division of King County government, Respondents, and Ernest R. Wilson, King County Metro employee; and Courvoisier L. Carpenter, Defendants.

Court of Appeals of Washington, Division 1.

May 7, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip Albert Talmadge, Emmelyn Hart-Biberfeld, Talmadge Law Group PLLC, Tukwila, WA, Diego P. Gavilanes, Everett, WA, for Appellants.

Kristofer John Bundy, Jill Higgins Hendrix, Seattle, for Respondents.

Courvoisier L. Carpenter, Appearing Pro Se.


DWYER, J.

¶ 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 County bus driver parked the bus he was driving on the side of Martin Luther King, Jr...

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