Legal Opinion
Pamela Sutera, and James Sutera v. Go Jokir, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided June 17, 1996No. 200, Docket 95-7222PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge:
This diversity tort action between plaintiffs, residents of Florida, and defendant, a New York corporation, arises from a slip-and-fall accident in a suburban shopping mall. The defendant is the owner of an easement in the parking lot where the fall occurred. An easement is an interest in land giving its owner the right to enjoy a limited use in the land of another, free from the interference of third persons or even from the owner of the land itself. As one might suspect, exercising the rights given by an easement has a price. Here that price is that the owner of the…
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