Sidney Raisnick Case Summary
It was seemingly a normal quiet night on the day of March 12th 2011, until Virginia Rasnick attempted to phone her husband several times with no response. Sidney Rasnick, while on a work assignment in Jesup Georgia, checked into a motel on March 6th 2011. The hotel was owned by Krishna Hospitality INC. Throughout the work trip for all 6 days he was staying there, her husband had a schedule of always making several calls a day to her, and always one at night before he went to bed. So when he didn’t answer the phone that night she knew something was wrong. Her husband Sidney Rasnik, had a history of heart problems and she was growing more and more worried after calling five more times with no response. Desperate she asked one of the hotel operators that answered the phone to check on her husband. She stated that she was “very worried about her husband” and that he had been on medication. The man on the phone told her that he knew who he was and that he was resting and she was disturbing him. She tried to argue this claim but he hung up. She ended up calling the hotel 8 more times, asking for
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The whole basis for her allegation was that Krishna had a legal obligation to act in order to protect her husband from harm, but the Supreme Court ruled otherwise as it was not the hotels fault that he had a medical condition. She tried to say that there was an exception to this rule because she felt that her husband and the hotel had a “special relationship” as shown in Section 314A “when some special relationship exists between partied social policies must justify the imposition of a duty to assist or rescue one in peril.” But Krishna just argued back that that restatement hasn’t been adopted by Georgia’s common law. Virginia was not compensated in any way and in her eyes justice was never
The whole basis for her allegation was that Krishna had a legal obligation to act in order to protect her husband from harm, but the Supreme Court ruled otherwise as it was not the hotels fault that he had a medical condition. She tried to say that there was an exception to this rule because she felt that her husband and the hotel had a “special relationship” as shown in Section 314A “when some special relationship exists between partied social policies must justify the imposition of a duty to assist or rescue one in peril.” But Krishna just argued back that that restatement hasn’t been adopted by Georgia’s common law. Virginia was not compensated in any way and in her eyes justice was never