Rockafellow v. Rockwell City

The question is whether defendant’s duty to exercise due care for its business invitees was coterminous with the legal description of its landlord’s property. The trial court held the duty existed as to a part of the business ingress and egress which extended over a public parking. Under the somewhat unusual facts of the case I agree with the trial court. I dissent because I believe defendant appropriated the part of the parking in question to its own use.

Defendant’s 1958 building project included a walkway along and across the parking at the front of the building. The walkway, immediately…