Laurens v. Rush

Hall, Judge.

This case presents the question of the duty owed to a social guest of an owner or occupier of land—a difficult problem in semantics. While a rose is a rose, the invited are not always invitees. “ ‘Invitation’ is today a much discredited word, if only because a private social guest is invited, and yet is not in the legal sense an ‘invitee.’ ” Prosser, Business Visitors and Invitees, 26 Minn.- L. Rev. 573, 585.

“If plaintiff is a social guest in defendant’s home, the great weight of Anglo-American authority classifies him as a bare licensee, even though he was expressly invited.…