Hix v. Billen

How courts have described this case

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• involving a plaintiff who was injured by an engine fire that occurred after the defendant turned on the ignition of the car despite the plaintiff's instruction not to, with the court deeming the action to be one based on active negligence
• noting a party's limited liability to trespassers and uninvited licensees to avoid \willful injury\ and if the trespassers and uninvited licensees' presence is known to \give warning of any known dangerous condition not open to ordinary observation by the uninvited licensee or trespasser\
• “There is a distinction to be noted between active, personal negligence on the part of a landowner and that negligence which is based upon a negligent condition of the premises.”
• “There is a distinction to be noted between active, personal negligence on the part of a landowner and that negligence which is based upon a negligent condition of the premises.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).