KANE v. LAMOTHE

No. 06-229.

936 A.2d 1303 (2007)

2007 VT 91

Joanne KANE v. Trooper Maurice LAMOTHE and the State of Vermont.

Supreme Court of Vermont.

August 24, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kurt M. Hughes and Margaret Glazier, Legal Assistant (on the Brief), of Murdoch Hughes & Twarog, Burlington, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

William H. Sorrell, Attorney General, and Eve Jacobs-Carnahan, Assistant Attorney General, Montpelier, for Defendants-Appellees.

Present: REIBER, C.J., DOOLEY, JOHNSON and BURGESS, JJ.


¶ 1. BURGESS, J.

Plaintiff appeals from a trial court order dismissing her claims of negligence and gross negligence against defendants State of Vermont and Trooper Maurice Lamothe. These claims arise from an alleged failure by the trooper to properly investigate a reported incident of domestic abuse against plaintiff that continued after the trooper left the scene. We conclude that the State and the trooper owed no

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