Hill v. Sonitrol of Southwestern Ohio, Inc.

Appellants present the following three issues for our determination: whether a security alarm system company owes a duty of protection to the employee of a commercial establishment under a contract between the commercial establishment and the security alarm system company for the protection of the commercial establishment after it is closed for the day; whether the employee is a third-party intended beneficiary or an incidental beneficiary of the contract; and whether one who undertakes, gratuitously or for consideration, to render services to another which affect a third person is liable to…