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Coughlin v. Titus & Bean Graphics, Inc.

Citations

  • 54 Mass. App. Ct. 633
  • 767 N.E.2d 106

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • “person is not negligent toward another unless he owes the other a duty to be careful”
  • no duty owed to victim of employee where she “was neither a customer . . . nor an employee or business invitee at the time she was murdered”
  • summary judgment granted in favor of employer, where employee, who had prior convictions for rape and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, murdered woman on employer’s premises; not reasonably foreseeable employee would attack member of public
  • explaining duty of care for employer in negligent hiring

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Smith

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