Wilks v. Piggly Wiggly Southern, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• attack occurred 20 to 25 yards beyond grocery store, immediately upon customer’s exit from premises
• jury question existed as to whether proprietor’s steps to prevent criminals from loitering near store entry-way and robbing patrons were effective or reasonable
• mugged store patron asserted negligent security claim based on store’s knowledge of prior criminal attacks on its premises
• attack occurred 20 to 25 yards beyond grocery store, immediately upon customer’s exit from premises
• the fact that patron saw attackers and had a “gut feeling” about them was not enough to constitute superior knowledge of the danger as compared to that of the defendant supermarket’s employees

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).