Haupt v. Sharkey

How courts have described this case

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• duty to protect patron against foreseeable criminal acts of third party extended beyond legal property line
• duty to protect patron against foreseeable criminal acts of third party extended beyond legal property line
• tavern had duty to protect patron from criminal attack by another patron even though victim was attacked as he stepped out of the building and onto the public sidewalk
• tavern had duty to protect patron from criminal attack by another patron even though victim was attacked as he stepped out of the building and onto the public sidewalk
• the patron departing the tavern remained the tavern’s business invitee at the time the patron was attacked by a third party, even though the patron had at that point just stepped beyond the legal property line of the tavern
• this court held that a criminal attack was reasonably foreseeable where, prior to the attack that occurred outside of the bar on public property, a bartender saw the attacker start a fight with the plaintiff in the bar and forced both men to leave the bar together

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).