Gast v. Shell Oil Co.

BLACKMAR, Judge.

Linda Gast, a cashier at a 24-hour self-service gasoline station, was shot to death in the course of a daytime robbery. Her parents seek damages for her wrongful death from the contractor who converted a service bay into a cashier’s room. The trial court directed a verdict for the defendant at the close of the evidence.1 The court of appeals reversed and remanded for trial, relying largely on the opinion in Honey v. Barnes Hospital, 708 S.W.2d 686, 700 (Mo. App.1986). We granted transfer to consider the scope of the contractor’s duty to third persons suffering injury on the…