Court Opinion

ID: 9706294
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 01:39:06.285546+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:22:21.434892
License: Public Domain

Hennessey, C.J.
(concurring). I concur in the court’s result and reasoning, except that I do not join in what I construe in the opinion as modest encouragement that the court may in the future move toward abolishing all distinctions among tort plaintiffs who are invitees, licensees, or trespassers. I do not say that there may never be special circumstances in which an adult trespasser should be permitted recovery in an action for negligence against the landowner. If we must allude to the future, however, I should prefer a prediction that, in general, liability of the landowner for negligence is not to be extended to the adult trespasser. I think we show our sense of fitness in validating the claim of the child injured in the circumstances shown here; not so, if we treat adult trespassers similarly, or predict that we might.