Maguire v. Pan-American Amusement Co.

How courts have described this case

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• abutting owner is not liable for injuries resulting from failure to repair defect in sidewalk which owner has not caused
• abutting owner is not liable for injuries resulting from failure to repair defect in sidewalk which owner has not caused
• fall on sidewalk outside private home, homeowner owed no duty to pedestrian using sidewalk
• “[I]n the absence of a statute or ordinance changing the rule, an abutting owner is not liable for injuries resulting from his failure to repair a defect in a sidewalk which he has not caused.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).