Clark v. Cleveland Drug Co.

The appellant’s brief is restricted to the question of the defendant’s negligence. It was no doubt prepared on the theory that the plaintiff entered the drug store as an invitee to whom the defendant owed the duty to exercise reasonable care; and to sustain this position the plaintiff relies on the general principle that the owner or occupant of premises who invites others to go thereon owes to such persons a duty in the exercise of due care to have his premises in a reasonably safe condi- lion and to give warning of latent or concealed perils. Ellington v. Ricks, 179 N. C., 686; Leavister v.…