Peterson Ex Rel. Peterson v. Richfield Plaza, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• affirming verdict based on duty owed by storeowner to protect child from insufficiently guarded balcony on which store-owner had seen children playing
• applying this exception to permit testimony of a physician about certain statements made to him by a patient
• imposing liability on a store owner when a child fell off a balcony because the owner knew that children often were in the area and sometimes wandered away from their parents
• finding foreseeability but acknowledging that cases could be found expressing a contrary view on the foreseeability of the particular harm, and declining to follow those cases
• possibility that a four-year-old child would fabricate the symptoms of a head injury was \extremely remote\
• possibility that a four-year-old child would fabricate the symptoms of a head injury was “extremely remote”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).