Simpson's Food Fair, Inc. v. City of Evansville

Plaintiff-appellant, a retail grocery corporation in Evansville, alleged in its two-paragraph complaint that the failure of the city police to halt a wave of criminal activities had forced it to go out of business and to suffer damages in the amount of $1,000,000.00 Theories of negligence and strict liability were unsuccessfully advanced by plaintiff relying upon I. C. 1971, 18-1-11-7, being Ind. Ann. Stat., § 48-6110 (Burns 1963), in that defendant’s Motion to Dismiss the complaint was sustained. Plaintiff, failing to plead over, suffered judgment to be entered against it, from which…