Johnson v. MacIas

STRUM, Circuit Judge.

The question here is whether or not defendants below, appellants here, are liable to plaintiff for personal injuries sustained by him while on defendants’ premises, when struck by flying fragments of a metal pulley which distintegrated while revolving at high speed.

The principal questions are (1) whether plaintiff, as he contends, was upon defendants’ premises as an implied invitee for business purposes, to whom defendants owed the duty to exercise reasonable care for his safety, or whether, as defendants contend, plaintiff was a mere licensee to whom defendants owed only…