Katerina Galanis v. CMA Management Company

ROBERTS, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Bobby Batiste murdered his roommate, Andreas Galanis, in the apartment that they shared at 21 Apartments in Starkville, Mississippi. Andreas’s mother, Katerina Galanis, and his sister, Christina Galanis, (the Galanises) sued Batiste1 and the companies2 that owned and managed 21 Apartments. According to the Galanis-es, 21 Apartments negligently failed to warn Andreas of Batiste’s violent tendencies. 21 Apartments moved for summary judgment and argued that there was no evidence that it had actual or constructive knowledge of Batiste’s propensity for violence, so…