Rowe v. State Bank of Lombard

How courts have described this case

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• holding landlord liable for theft of tenant’s property when landlord gave key to bogus repairman
• providing that duty owed \by an owner or occupier of any premises\ to entrants onto premises \is that of reasonable care under the circumstances\
• finding that judge had authority, after being assigned a case in the ordinary course of judicial reassignment, to reconsider previous judge's denial of summary judgment
• finding that judge had authority, after being assigned a case in the ordinary course of judicial reassignment, to reconsider previous judge’s denial of summary judgment
• noting that providing external lighting at a property is commonplace and furnished by virtually every landlord to every tenant and thus “cannot reasonably be regarded as the assumption of a duty to protect against criminal acts”
• rejecting broad duty upon landlord to protect tenants from foreseeable criminal acts committed by third parties on the premises

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).