Costello v. Farmers Bank
North Dakota Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of Mercer County, 8. L. Nuchohj J. From a judgment in defendant’s favor, plaintiff appeals. It is true that a trespasser or mere licensee, going upon the premises of another, goes’at his own risk, and the owner owes no duty to him to protect him from injury.
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Appeal from the District Court of Mercer County, 8. L. Nuchohj J. From a judgment in defendant’s favor, plaintiff appeals. It is true that a trespasser or mere licensee, going upon the premises of another, goes’at his own risk, and the owner owes no duty to him to protect him from injury. But where defendant by his conduct has induced the public to use a way, in the belief that it is a street or highway, and where they suppose they will be safe, an exception to the rule above stated at once arises and renders defendant liable for injuries sustained by one so using such street or highway. 29…
1Opinion of the Court
Fisk, Ch. J.
Plaintiff received injuries by falling into an excavation ■on defendant’s property, and he seeks to recover damages therefor. The facts, briefly stated, are as follows: The accident occurred between 6 *136and 7 o’clock in the evening of January 18, 1914, on lot 6 of block 3 of the town of Golden Valley, North Dakota. This town at that time was only about two months old, and the streets had not been graded nor sidewalks built, and there was nothing there other than the surveyors’ stakes to mark the street and lot lines. Lot 6, aforesaid, is in the northeast corner of block 3. At the…
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