Osborne v. Stages Music Hall, Inc.

THIRD DIVISION

March 15, 2000

No. 1-98-4373

LINDIE OSBORNE, ) Appeal from the) Circuit Court of

Plaintiff, ) Cook County.)))

STAGES MUSIC HALL, INC., an )

Illinois corporation, Individually,) Honorable

and d/b/a CABARET METRO/SMART BAR, ) Sharon Johnson-Coleman,) Judge Presiding.

Defendant. )

The question in this case is whether Stages Music Hall, Inc. (Stages), the owner of a nightclub on Clark Street in Chicago, owed a duty to protect its customer from a third-party criminal attack that took place just outside its entrance doors.

After hearing the plaintiff Lindie Osborne's (Osborne) evidence, the…