Coursey v. Westvaco Corp.

ON CERTIFICATION FROM UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

WINTERSHEIMER, Justice.

This matter came before the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky at Paducah on a motion by Westvaco for summary judgment. The questions submitted to our court for certification are as follows:

1) Whether a party is protected under K.R.S. 411.190, the recreational use statute, when the party neither prevents nor affirmatively invites a person to enter the land in question.

2) Whether K.R.S. 411.190 precludes application of the attractive nuisance doctrine, and

3) Whether a party is required to…