Legal Opinion
Stratioti v. Bick
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided April 20, 1983No. 82-1313PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FAGG, Circuit Judge.
Shirley Stratioti was killed and Denise Stratioti was injured when they were hit by a runaway automobile while walking in a shopping center parking lot. In this appeal we consider whether the owner of the parking lot, as a matter of Minnesota law, had a duty to protect against this accident. Because we believe that the accident was not foreseeable, we hold that no such duty existed.
I. BACKGROUND
On February 11, 1977, Shirley Stratioti and her two young children were in a 'parking lot walking toward the entrance of Shopper’s City, a discount retail store in Duluth,…
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- MacK v. McGrathSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1967
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