Sharp Realty Co. v. Forsha

By the Court.

It must be conceded that the child had no lawful mission upon the premises in question. Plaintiff in error claims that he was not an invited licensee, but was in a legal sense a trespasser. Defendant in error takes the position that, by reason of his tender years and the well-known tendency of children to wander at will upon the property of others, he was an implied licensee. We think, however, in this state the duty of the owner of the premises was no more than not to wantonly injure the child, or not to expose him to hidden dangers, traps or pitfalls, and to exercise ordinary…