Opinion ID: 1698910
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Heading: evaluation of duty of landowners

Text: Rather than strictly adhering to the agrarian rule, we note that some jurisdictions have applied an analysis similar to that set out in McCain in determining a defendant landowner's duty with respect to alleged obstructions to vision in place on a landowner's property. See Sprecher v. Adamson Cos., 30 Cal.3d 358, 178 Cal. Rptr. 783, 636 P.2d 1121, 1124 (1981) ([T]he courts are moving toward jettisoning the common law rule in its entirety and replacing it with a single duty of reasonable care in the maintenance of property.) In fact, a review of Florida cases as well as those of other jurisdictions reflects a movement consistent with McCain toward imposing a duty on landowners in some circumstances for injuries caused by natural or artificial conditions by either creating exceptions to the no liability rule, see Evans v. Southern Holding Corp., 391 So.2d 231, 232 (Fla. 3d DCA 1980), or by completely abrogating it.