Legal Opinion
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dickinson
Kentucky Supreme Court
Decided September 28, 2000No. 1999-SC-0758-MRPublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHNSTONE, Justice.
Wal-Mart, Stores, Inc., appeals to this Court as a matter of right from a Court of Appeals’ order denying its petitions for writs of prohibition. We affirm in part and reverse in part.
Delons Laurenz was the victim of a purse snatching in the parking lot of the Glasgow, Kentucky, Wal-Mart. She suffered injuries as a result of this crime. Subsequently, Laurenz sued Wal-Mart alleging that it had assumed the responsibility for the safety of persons using the parking lot, thereby creating a duty which it breached when it failed to prevent the purse snatching in question or…
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