Court Opinion

ID: 9684380
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 13:55:18.76237+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:17:55.350329
License: Public Domain

HENLEY, Judge
(dissenting).
I respectfully dissent. Plaintiffs petition, alleging as it does that defendant “kept a loaded shotgun as protection [for herself and her home] from Joyner,” negates any possible inference that Joyner was a guest she brought into her home, a guest invited in violation of her duty to exercise due care to avoid subjecting others to the danger she knew Joyner’s presence would present.
The only inference the quoted portion of the petition supports is that Joyner was an unexpected trespasser; not a guest. I say that because it is contrary to all experience that defendant would invite into her home a person against whom she saw fit to protect it with a shotgun.
I would hold that the petition fails to state a claim upon which relief may be granted.