Stephen v. Swiatkowski

How courts have described this case

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• holding a plaintiff can only recover for nonfeasance if he “can show that he reasonably relied on the defendant for protection”
• holding a plaintiff can only recover for nonfeasance if he \can show that he reasonably relied on the defendant for protection\
• affirming that protruding nail was open and obvious where plaintiff testified “that he would have seen the protruding nail if he had only looked down at it.”
• stating that “where a duty of care is imposed by reason of a voluntary undertaking, breach of that duty can be found only where there is misfeasance rather than nonfeasance, unless plaintiff can show that he reasonably relied on the defendant for protection”
• stating that “where a duty of care is imposed by reason of a voluntary undertaking, breach of that duty can be found only where there is misfeasance rather than nonfeasance, unless plaintiff can show that he reasonably relied on the defendant for protection”
• “A licensee *** is ‘one who enters upon the premises of another by permission for his own purposes.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).