Case ID: njl_125/html/0002-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Bodine, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

KATHERINE CARR AND WALTER CARR, PLAINTIFFSRESPONDENTS, v. JOHN HAGERICH, DEFENDANT-APPELLANT.
    Submitted May 7, 1940
    Decided May 27, 1940.
    Before Justices Trenchabd, Bodine and Portee.
    Por the defendant-appellant, Wilbur A. Stevens, William Warm and John V. Fiore.
    
    Por the plaintiffs-respondents, Edward F. Brodericlc and Griffith Vaughan.
    
   Bodine, J.

There was error in the failure of the court to grant a non-suit or direct a verdict for the defendant. The liability of the owner or occupier of land to his. invitees is circumscribed by his invitation. Ryerson v. Bathgate, 67 N. J. L. 337; Guse v. Martin, 96 Id. 262; Carey v. Gray, 98 Id. 217; Gavin v. O'Connor, 99 Id. 162; Liveright v. Max Lifsitz Furniture Co., 117 Id. 243; Wright v. General Ceramics Co., 120 Id. 33.

There was no implied invitation to enter this tavern by a dark service entrance clearly marked with the words “Keep Out.” Hence, there was no duty owing to the plaintiffs save to refrain from causing willful injury.

The judgment is reversed.