ALLRIGHT SAN ANTONIO PARKING INC. v. KENDRICK

No. 04-96-00699-CV.

981 S.W.2d 250 (1998)

ALLRIGHT SAN ANTONIO PARKING INC., Appellant, v. Suzette KENDRICK, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Texas, San Antonio.

June 17, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William L. Powers, Jennifer Gibbins Durbin, Allen, Stein, Powers, Durbin & Hunnicutt, Wallace B. Jefferson, Sharon E. Callaway, Crofts, Callaway & Jefferson, P.C., San Antonio, for Appellant.

Anthony F. Constant, Law Offices of Anthony F. Constant, Corpus Christi, J. Thomas Rhodes, III, Lyons & Rhodes, P.C., San Antonio, Frank Herrera, Jr., Law Offices of Frank Herrera, Inc. San Antonio, for Appellee.

Before RICKHOFF, LÓPEZ and ANGELINI, JJ.


OPINION

RICKHOFF, Justice.

In this case we confront the recurring question of when to hold a premises owner liable for criminal acts committed by a third person against a customer. Because this was a random act of violence, without evidence of specific prior crimes on the property, we find it was not foreseeable.

Suzette Kendrick was abducted from a parking lot in downtown San Antonio by Larry Wayne Gross; he forced her into her own car, drove her...

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