Legal Opinion · Dissent

Hines v. Consumers' Ice Light Company

Supreme Court of Arkansas

Decided May 18, 1925Published

1DissentMcCulloch, C. J.

The law is well settled that one who goes upon the premises of another, not as an employee or as 'inviteé, but merely as a licensee, takes his license with its concomitant perils, and that the owner owes him no affirmative' duty of protestation; the measure of the owner’s duty being merely the negative one to do no act to cause injury after the presence of the licensee is discovered. St. L. I. M. & S. Ry. Co. v. Tomlinson, 69 Ark. 489; Arkansas & Louisiana Ry. Co. v. Sain, 90 Ark. 278; St. L. M. & S. Ry. Co. v. Pyles, 114 Ark. 218; C. R. I. & P. Ry. Co. v. Russell, 136 Ark. 365; Mitchell v.…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Arkansas & Louisiana Railway Co. v. SainSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1909
  2. Knight v. Farmers' & Merchants' Gin Co.Supreme Court of Arkansas · 1923
  3. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. TomlinsonSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1901
  4. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. PylesSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1914
  5. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. v. RussellSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1918

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