Kosmalski v. St John’s Lutheran Church

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• “ ‘[W]e hold that the owner’s reason for inviting persons onto the premises is the primary consideration when determining the visitor’s status: [i]n order to establish invitee status, a plaintiff must show that the premises were held open for a commercial purpose.’ ”
• “[T]he law in Michigan requires that a landowner owes a licensee a duty to warn the licensee of any hidden dangers the owner knows or has reason to know of, if the hidden danger involves an unreasonable risk of harm and the licensee does not know or have reason to 3 See Restatement (Second

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