Cash v. Blue Mountain Industries of Carisbrook Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that, although a store had no duty to protect business invitees from the criminal acts of a third party, when the store's employee undertook to apprehend a shoplifter, the store was liable for an ensuing injury to a customer as a result of the employee's negligence
• noting that while an owner may not have an initial duty to prevent injuries to business invitees as a result of criminal acts, liability may result from negligent performance of a voluntary undertaking to apprehend criminals
• “Alabama law recognizes the principle that liability to third parties can result from the negligent performance of a voluntary undertaking.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).