Dunkle v. Food Service East Inc.

POPOVICH, Judge.

This controversial appeal involves the strangulation death of Senie Eyer. What began as a simple action in negligence against the store where Eyer was attacked has now escalated into an attempt to hold the perpetrator’s treating psy chologist, counselor and doctor liable in damages for failing to warn the victim of their patient’s propensity towards violence. Our duty is to consider whether the trial court properly determined that the above additional defendants owed no legal duty to protect the plaintiffs’ decedent from their patient’s hostility.

We are cognizant of the…