J. Conrad MacQuarrie v. Howard Johnson Company

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the strict \abuse of discretion\ standard \is especially appropriate if the motion for a new trial is based on a claim that the verdict is against the weight of the evidence\
• finding that Delaware law post-Jardel required a jury to determine if a history of “larceny of goods from a car” in a parking lot created a foreseeable risk of a violent robbery in that same parking lot
• \[t]rial courts have wide discretion when considering a motion for a new trial\
• court held inn liable for injuries incurred when guest was robbed and shot in inn’s parking lot, where crime rate on the premises was high and that type of violent act was therefore foreseeable

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