SOUTHLAND CORP. v. GRIFFITH

No. 33, September Term, 1993.

332 Md. 704 (1993)

633 A.2d 84

THE SOUTHLAND CORPORATION v. DAVID GRIFFITH.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Reconsideration Denied December 15, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald H. Jarashow (William A. Franch and Robert R. Smith, Franch & Jarashow, P.A., on brief), Annapolis, for petitioner.

Keith R. Siskind (Forman & Steinhardt, P.A., on brief), Glen Burnie, for respondent.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, CHASANOW, KARWACKI, and ROBERT M. BELL, JJ.


MURPHY, Chief Judge.

Our grant of certiorari in this case focuses upon the legal duty, if any, of a convenience store clerk to phone the police for emergency assistance when requested to do so on behalf of a business visitor who was being assaulted on the store-owned parking lot adjoining its store.

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On May 15, 1988, David Griffith, an out of uniform off-duty police officer, his son, and several friends drove in a pickup truck to a 7-Eleven store...

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