SAKAS v. CAPITAL CONCEPTS CORP.

89-407.

565 So.2d 237 (1990)

Tunya SAKAS v. CAPITAL CONCEPTS CORPORATION and Royal Arms Apartments, Ltd.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

June 29, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R.B. Jones, Birmingham, for appellant.

James W. Porter II of Porter, Porter & Hassinger, Birmingham, for appellees.


MADDOX, Justice.

The issue presented in this case is whether the owner of an apartment complex is liable for an assault committed by its resident manager on one of the tenants in the absence of any showing that the manager was acting within the line and scope of his employment or that the manager had a propensity toward assault and that the owner knew about that propensity.

FACTS

Plaintiff Tunya Sakas was attacked by James Dingler, who was the resident...

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