Isaacs v. Huntington Memorial Hospital

How courts have described this case

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• shooting in hospital parking lot; history of numerous assaults or threatened assaults on premises and thefts near them; nonsuit for defendant reversed
• shooting in hospital parking lot; history of numerous assaults or threatened assaults on premises and thefts near them; nonsuit for defendant reversed
• noting, “Surely, a landowner should not get one free assault before he can be held liable for criminal acts which occur on his property.”
• criticizing rule of no liability until one accident has occurred because it “discourag[es] landowners from taking adequate measures to protect premises which they know are dangerous” and “contravenes the policy of preventing future harm”
• it is for the jury to decide whether the security measures were reasonable under the circumstances
• whether the premises are located in a high crime area

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).