Legal Opinion
Burns v. Gleason Plant Security, Inc.
Connecticut Appellate Court
Decided April 14, 1987No. 5076PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBorden, J.
The dispositive issue in this case is whether the plaintiffs can maintain a cause of action in negligence against the defendants, a security company and its employee, where the employee left a key in the ignition of . a company car which was subsequently stolen by a third party, who drove it to the plaintiff’s *481store and, in the course of committing an armed robbery, assaulted the named plaintiff.1 The trial court held that the plaintiff could not. We find no error.
The facts fairly provable under the relevant counts of the complaint2 are as follows. The named defendant, Gleason Plant Security,…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Schlesinger v. WisconsinSupreme Court of the United States · 1926
- Tetro v. Town of StratfordSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1983
- Fairfield Lease Corp. v. Romano's Auto ServiceConnecticut Appellate Court · 1985
- Merhi v. BeckerSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1973
- Trzcinski v. RicheySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1983
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3Cited by21 opinions
- Lodge v. Arett Sales Corp.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1998
- Gutierrez v. ThorneConnecticut Appellate Court · 1988
- Wagner v. Clark Equipment Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1997
- State v. BrowneConnecticut Appellate Court · 2004
- Coste v. Riverside Motors, Inc.Connecticut Appellate Court · 1991
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