Simpson's Food Fair, Inc. v. City of Evansville

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• no special duty owed grocer who claimed he went out of business because of a lack of police protection
• city was not liable for failure of the police to stop a wave of criminal activity which forced store to close
• city was not liable for failure of the police to stop a wave of criminal activity which forced store to close
• “A special duty, however, does not arise merely because an individual requests police assistance.”
• no special duty owed to retail grocer who was forced out of business by alleged failure of police to halt wave of criminal activity

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).