Brown v. National Supermarkets, Inc.

KAROHL, Presiding Judge.

Plaintiff-appellants Pauline and George Brown appeal from a summary judgment in favor of the three 'defendants, National Super Markets (National), Sentry Security Agency (Sentry) and T.G. Watkins, a security guard, employed by Sentry. The issue is whether defendants as a matter of law had a duty to protect the plaintiff from an assault by an unknown third party on defendant National’s parking lot.

Pauline and George Brown brought a negligence action against the defendants after Pauline was shot and seriously injured by an unknown assailant in National’s parking lot. The…