McCann v. Anchor Line, Ltd.

The only point requiring discussion in this case is whether the plaintiff was an “invited person” or a “business visitor” while on board the defendant’s ship, the Caledonia, in the port of New York. She had gone on board to say good-bye to a friend who was a passenger, and while there caught her foot upon the top of a companionway, which we must assume to have been negligently left out of repair. If she was merely a licensee, the defendant was not liable; otherwise, if she was a business visitor. The passenger’s daughter had invited her to see her mother off when the ship left, and on that…