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VAN HORN v. WATSON

No. S152360.

45 Cal.4th 322 (2008)

ALEXANDRA VAN HORN, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. ANTHONY GLEN WATSON et al., Defendants and Respondents; ANTHONY GLEN WATSON, Cross-complainant and Appellant, v. LISA TORTI, Cross-defendant and Respondent.

Supreme Court of California.

December 18, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Law Offices of Hutchinson & Snider and Robert B. Hutchinson for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Crandall, Wade & Lowe, Edwin B. Brown; McNeil, Tropp & Braun, McNeil, Tropp, Braun & Kennedy, Jeffrey I. Braun and Frank Cracchiolo for Defendants and Respondents and for Cross-complainant and Appellant.

Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, Ronald D. Kent, Sekret T. Sneed; Hanger, Levine & Steinberg, Jody Steinberg and Lisa Mead for Cross-defendant and Respondent.

David K. Park; Hughes Hubbard & Reed, Rita M. Haeusler, George A. Davidson, Carla A. Kerr and Scott H. Christensen for Boy Scouts of America as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Cross-defendant and Respondent.

OPINION

MORENO, J.—

Under well-established common law principles, a person has no duty to come to the aid of another. (Artiglio v. Corning, Inc. (1998) 18 Cal.4th 604, 613 [76 Cal.Rptr.2d 479, 957 P.2d 1313]; Williams v. State of California (1983) 34 Cal.3d 18, 23 ...

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