Murphy v. Penn Fruit Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a landowner was under a duty to provide reasonable precautions against a stabbing that occurred in the owner's parking lot when there has been a history of purse snatchings and muggings on the property
• upholding damage award for psychic injury even though plaintiffs’ doctors were certain her fears of cancer, heart attack and premature death were medically unfounded
• finding section 344 applicable to plaintiff injured by third person on defendant’s parking lot
• noting in negligence cases mental suffering accompanying even minor physical injury compensable
• foreseeability of stabbing in parking lot with history of nonviolent acts
• foreseeability of stabbing in parking lot with history of nonviolent acts

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).