Dwiggins v. Morgan Jewelers

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that under section 344 of the Restatement (Second) of Torts, a jewelry business was not liable for injuries the plaintiff sustained during a robbery of the store
• holding that the duty arising under section 344 exists in Utah
• using the legal relationship of the parties as a plus factor to impose a heightened duty on shopkeepers to protect customers from criminal acts of other customers
• \Owners of land must ... exercise due care and prudence for the safety of business invitees.\
• “Owners of land must . . . exercise due care and prudence for the safety of business invitees.”
• “[S]ummary judgment is appropriate in negligence cases only in the clearest instances.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).