Pavlides v. Niles Gun Show, Inc.

Reader^ Judge.

Appellant Niles Gun Show, Inc. appeals a judgment of the Stark County Common Pleas Court awarding appellee Gregg L. Pavlides $750,000 in compensatory damages and $12,000 in punitive damages upon a jury verdict, and raises the following assignments of error:

ASSIGNMENTS OF ERROR

“I. The trial court erred in holding as a matter of law that the defendant, Niles Gun Show, had a legal duty to the plaintiff where the plaintiff alleged that he was intentionally shot by a teenager who had allegedly stolen a gun from the defendant’s gun show and where the shooting occurred ten hours later…