LAURENS v. RUSH

42860.

116 Ga. App. 65 (1967)

156 S.E.2d 482

LAURENS v. RUSH.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided June 23, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. T. Hendon, Jr., for appellant.

Smith, Cohen, Ringel, Kohler, Martin & Lowe, William T. Johnson, Meade Burns, for appellee.


HALL, Judge.

This case presents the question of the duty owed to a social guest of an owner or occupier of land — a difficult problem in semantics. While a rose is a rose, the invited are not always invitees. "`Invitation' is today a much discredited word, if only because a private social guest is invited, and yet is not in the legal sense an `invitee.'" Prosser, Business Visitors and Invitees, 26 Minn. L. Rev. 573, 585.

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