Berman v. LaRose

The present dispute presents the question of whether a commercial landowner owes a duty to business invitees to keep abutting state-owned property, used for public parking, in a reasonably safe condition. The particular fact situation involved, that of a publicly-owned parking area abutting defendant’s premises, to our knowledge has not been presented to the American judiciary. The merits of the question will be weighed as presented by the following fact situation: ■

Defendant owns a retail grocery store and his customers often park their cars on a strip of state-owned land between the road…