McGarity v. Hart Electric Membership Corp.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “[T]he owner or occupier has a duty not to wilfully or wantonly injure a licensee . . . .”
• “Evi- dence of McGarity’s status as an invitee was not nullified by evi- dence that he had a dual purpose for being on the property.”
• jury could find utility company had “a duty to conduct more frequent inspections to ensure that its live electrical wires were not left uncovered” and protruding from the ground
• “An invitee is one who, by express or implied invitation, has been induced or led to come upon premises for any lawful purpose; he may be deemed an invitee if his presence on the property is of mutual benefit to him and the owner or occupier.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).