Rowe v. Mazel Thirty, LLC

The issue presented in this appeal is whether summary judgment properly was granted to a landowner on whose private premises a police officer, engaged in a safe-streets initiative, fell and was injured. In such circumstances, the police officer stood in the shoes of a licensee to whom the landowner owed a duty to warn of any dangerous conditions of which the owner knew or had reason to know and of which the officer was reasonably unaware.

Here, the Appellate Division ruled that the officer’s foreknowledge of the dangerous condition of the property eliminated any duty on the part of the…