SIMPSON'S FOOD FAIR, INC. v. CITY OF EVANSVILLE

No. 770A106.

272 N.E.2d 871 (1971)

SIMPSON's FOOD FAIR, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF EVANSVILLE, Evansville, Indiana, Defendant-Appellee.

Appellate Court of Indiana, Division No. 1.

September 15, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph M. Koehne, John D. Clouse, Evansville, for plaintiff-appellant.

Robert S. Matthews, Ronald Warrum, Jerry P. Baugh, Philip H. Siegel, Evansville, for defendant-appellee.


SULLIVAN, Presiding Justice.

Plaintiff-appellant, a retail grocery corporation in Evansville, alleged in its two-paragraph complaint that the failure of the city police to halt a wave of criminal activities had forced it to go out of business and to suffer damages in the amount of $1,000,000.00. Theories of negligence and strict liability were unsuccessfully advanced by plaintiff relying upon I.C. 1971, 18-1-11-7, being Ind. Ann. Stat. § 48-6110 (Burns 1963)...

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