JUSTICE BOATRIGHT delivered the Opinion of the Court.
¶1 As the famed jurist Benjamin N. Cardozo put it, "[d]anger invites rescue. The cry of distress is the summons to relief." Wagner v. Int'l Ry. Co., 232 N.Y. 176, 133 N.E. 437, 437 (1921). Following this logic, courts adopted the rescue doctrine, which ensures that negligent actors...
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