Sargent v. Inger

This is an action for damages for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff when she slipped and fell on the brick walkway of defendants’ home after bringing her son to a children’s birthday party there. The case was tried before the court, without a jury. Plaintiff appeals from a judgment of involuntary nonsuit. We affirm.

Plaintiff urges on this appeal, in a well prepared and well documented brief, that the court should abandon the traditional common law distinction, as previously recognized by this court, between the duty owed by a landowner to licensee, such as a social guest, and that owed…