Menees v. National Super Markets, Inc.

STEPHAN, Judge.

On September 4, 1987, Rose Brown, an employee of National Super Markets, Inc., was shot to death by an armed robber while performing her duties in the store. Her surviving spouse, William R. Brown, was awarded Workers’ Compensation benefits as a result of her death. Thereafter, William Brown and Rose Brown’s six children, each of whom was fully emancipated at the time of her death, commenced a wrongful death action against Barrington-Bryce Detective *379Agency and Building Butlers, Inc. apparently on the basis of their failure to maintain the National store as a safe place to work.…