Ford v. Board of County Commissioners

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that an issue raised by an appellant for which the appellant failed to provide a complete record was waived
• concluding that an issue raised by an appellant for which the appellant failed to provide a complete record was waived
• holding county liable where it was owner of commercial building and exercised control over premises
• abolishing invitee-licensee distinction with respect to duty of care to “act as a reasonable man in maintaining his property in a reasonably safe condition in view of all the circumstances”
• eliminating the distinction between licensees and invitees and substituting instead a single standard of reasonable care under the circumstances, while retaining trespassers as a separate classification
• factors include likelihood of injury to another, the seriousness of the injury, and the burden of avoiding the risk

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).