Villani v. Wilmington Housing Authority

How courts have described this case

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• tenant’s child fell into a natural water course and drowned, the water course had not been fenced
• “The law is well settled that an owner or person in charge of property has no duty to a trespasser, except to refrain from injuring him intentionally, wilfully, or wantonly.”
• no duty by apartment owner/landlord to fence adjacent canal to protect children/tenant invitees
• landowner need only refrain from wilful or wanton injury of a trespasser

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).