Isaacs v. Huntington Memorial Hospital

Opinion

BIRD, C. J.

This court must decide whether a plaintiff, in an action against a landowner for criminal acts of third persons on the landowner’s property, may establish foreseeability other than by evidence of prior similar incidents on those premises.

I

Plaintiff, Mervyn Isaacs, is an anesthesiologist affiliated with defendant, Huntington Memorial Hospital, a private hospital located in Pasadena. On March 26, 1978, at approximately 8:30 p.m., Dr. Isaacs arrived at the hospital with his wife. He parked their car in the hospital’s research parking lot which was located across the street from…