Hensley v. Henkels & McCoy, Inc.

This case is an admitted attempt at an end run around the oft-expressed Maryland doctrine which states, “[T]he owner of land owes no duty to a trespasser or licensee, even one of tender years, except to abstain from wilful or wanton misconduct and entrapment.” The most recent pronouncements of this doctrine are found in Hicks v. Hitaffer, 256 Md. 659, 261 A. 2d 769 (1970), and Mondshour v. Moore, 256 Md. 617, 261 A. 2d 482 (1970). We shall sustain the action of the trial judge who refused to permit the end run.

Appellee, Henkels & McCoy, Inc., is a contractor which on April 12, 1967, was…