Judgment reversed on the law, and new trial granted, with costs to abide the event. No questions of fact have been considered.
In our opinion, the defendants' duty to use reasonable care to protect the plaintiff Louise Thibault, a 73-year-old senile woman, whom it is alleged the defendants had undertaken to care for while she was in their home, was not measured by what their duty would have been to a social guest as a mere licensee (cf. Zalak v. Carroll,
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