Mitchell v. Archibald & Kendall, Inc.

573 F.2d 429 (7th Cir. 1978)

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Nature of the Case

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Facts

Mitchell (P) sued Archibald & Kendall, Inc. (D) because he was robbed at gunpoint when a delivery truck P was driving was told to wait alongside D's building on public land before unloading. P was shot with a 12-gauge shotgun from three feet and suffered permanent injuries. Prior to the incident against P, there were repeated occasions when D's employees had experienced various criminal acts; just three weeks earlier an armed robbery was perpetrated against another truck driver while parked on D's premises waiting to make a delivery just as P did. P claimed D knew or should have known of the risk of criminal attack and that D had violated a number of duties; the duty to exercise ordinary care to make its premises safe, the duty to provide a safe means of ingress and egress from the facilities, the duty to exercise reasonable care to protect P from known dangers, the duty to notify P of the dangers, the duty to keep its premises and the immediate adjacent areas reasonably well policed. The trial court dismissed the complaint for a failure to state a claim upon which relief could be granted.