Hall v. Rental Management, Inc.

Bradley D. Jesson, Chief Justice.

This case concerns the duty of a landlord to protect its tenants from the criminal acts of third persons. The appellant, Hazel Kinchen Hall, and her son, seventeen-year-old Kendall Dolls, were tenants in the Jefferson Manor Apartments. The apartments were operated by the appellee, Rental Management, Inc. (RMI). On July 12, 1991, Kendall Dolls was shot and killed on the premises. The perpetrator, a man named Geno Davis, was the guest of another resident. Mrs. Hall filed suit in 1994 alleging that the negligence of RMI had proximately caused her son’s death. A…