Fund v. Hotel Lenox of Boston, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding failure of hotel to maintain an adequate security system created foreseeable risk that trespasser would gain entrance to hotel and assault guest
• jury question as to causal relationship between inadequate hotel security and stabbing of hotel patron
• duty to maintain adequate security system to prevent guest from being stabbed by intruder
• summary judgment to defendants reversed because stabbing of hotel guest found to be within reasonably foreseeable risk of harm given numerous nonviolent crimes and occasional violent crime in hotel, and inadequate security
• hotel owes duty to protect guests from foreseeable acts of criminals
• hotel’s security for its guests

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