Wahlstrom v. JPA IV Management Co., Inc.

*445 Following a four-week jury trial, a verdict was returned in favor of the plaintiff in this case, which arose when she was raped in a parking garage owned and operated by the defendants. An employee of the defendants had been raped in the same parking garage by the same man less than two weeks prior to the rape that forms the basis of this lawsuit. The jury concluded, *446 among other things, that the defendants had failed to take due care to protect the plaintiff, who was a customer of the garage walking back to her car in the early morning hours of May 1, 2009, after completing her work as a…