Risk v. Schilling

ON CIVIL PETITION TO TRANSFER

SHEPARD, Chief Justice.

This is one of four cases concerning the duty an Indiana landowner or occupier owes to his social guests to protect them from physical harm while they are on his premises.

C.W. Schilling and his three siblings own their family farm as a partnership called Schilling Farms. They lease the arable land to a tenant farmer. C.W. lives in a trailer on one corner of the property. In addition to his trailer, C.W. maintains a building on the land which he uses as a workshop for pursuit of his hobby, the restoration of old tractors. C.W. had the…