Humphrey v. Glenn

LAURA DENVIR STITH, Judge.

Plaintiff Eric Humphrey, a trespasser, was severely injured when he drove his four-wheeler into an unmarked cable that defendants, the Glenns, had strung across their private road in an effort to keep trespassing vehicles off of their leased farm, Greenfield. 1 The trial court recognized the traditional rule that a possessor of land, such as the Glenns, owes no duty to trespassers. But, it held, Missouri would adopt the exception to this rule set out in Restatement (Second) of Torts section 335 (1965). That section imposes on the land’s possessor a duty to use…