concluding that a hotel serving intoxicating beverages owed a duty to protect a person walking on a public sidewalk adjacent to the hotel from the consequences of dangerous conduct by the hotel’s guests, who released objects from hotel windows
How later courts described this case
- concluding that a hotel serving intoxicating beverages owed a duty to protect a person walking on a public sidewalk adjacent to the hotel from the consequences of dangerous conduct by the hotel’s guests, who released objects from hotel windows
- stating that an “innkeeper owes a duty to the public to protect it against foreseeable risk of danger attendant upon the maintenance and operation of his property”
- concluding that an innkeeper owes a duty to protect persons against foreseeable risk of danger attendant upon the maintenance and operation of its property
- stating that the “common-law test of duty is the . . . 20 foreseeability of injury to the plaintiff”
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
Matson, Justice
(dissenting).
I concur in the dissent of Mr. Justice Thomas Gallagher.