65th Center, Inc. v. Copeland

Robert H. Dudley, Justice.

The primary question in this tort suit is whether a private possessor of land that is adjacent to a public roadway is liable for the injury of a person who unintentionally deviates from the roadway. Because the numerous parties have filed a total of twelve briefs with multiple points of appeal, containing many subpoints, we choose to first state the facts and then address the issues in the order we think they will be most easily understood.

West 65th Street runs east and west in the southwest part of Little Rock. In the ,1950’s it was a two-lane street located in an…