Veney v. Warden of Maryland Penitentiary

How courts have described this case

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• holding that when the plaintiff’s injury arises from an allegedly dangerous condition on the land, the action sounds in premises liability, not ordinary negligence even when the plaintiff alleges that the defendant’s negligent act created the condition leading to the plaintiff’s injury
• noting that a plaintiff’s injuries arising from an allegedly dangerous condition on the land sound exclusively in premises liability, even if “the plaintiff alleges that the premises possessor created the condition giving rise to the plaintiff’s injury”
• stating that if the plaintiff’s injury arose from an allegedly dangerous condition on the land, then the action sounds in premises liability rather than ordinary negligence, even if the premises possessor created the condition giving rise to the plaintiff’s injury
• stating that if the plaintiff’s injury arose from an allegedly dangerous condition on the land, then the action sounds in premises liability rather than ordinary negligence, even if the premises possessor created the condition giving rise to the plaintiff’s injury
• rejecting the plaintiff’s assertion that their claim of ordinary negligence was proper because the defendant failed to remove ice from a cement patio, causing the plaintiff to slip and fall
• “If the plaintiff's injury arose from an allegedly dangerous condition on the land, the action sounds in premises liability rather than ordinary negligence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).