Court Opinion

ID: 9759443
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 00:16:36.881758+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:29:01.742558
License: Public Domain

Chief Justice EISMANN,
concurring in the result.
Mr. Jones was battered and injured on a public street by an unknown person who inferentially had recently left Boomer’s. It had no duty to prevent its former patrons, whether or not it knew they had a propensity for violence, from leaving its premises or from committing crimes or torts after they have left its premises. Otherwise, must a business conduct a citizen’s arrest on its patron simply because it knew the patron had a propensity for violence? What would it do with the patron after such arrest? How long must it hold the patron on its business premises to make sure that he or she did not leave and later act in conformity with such propensity?