QUINLAN v. CECCHINI


41 N.Y.2d 686 (1977)

Loretta Quinlan, by Her Father and Natural Guardian, Edwin Quinlan, et al., Appellants, v. Vito D. Cecchini et al., Respondents.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided May 10, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph J. Napoli and Morris J. Eisen, P. C., New York City, for appellants.

Benjamin Vinar, J. Robert Morris and Thomas R. Newman, New York City, for respondents.

Chief Judge BREITEL and Judges JASEN, GABRIELLI, JONES, WACHTLER and COOKE concur.


FUCHSBERG, J.

This is the first case of an injured social guest to reach us since we abandoned resort to common-law classifications as the conclusive determinant of a land occupier's duty to entrants on property based on whether they were to be regarded as licensees, invitees, trespassers or members of any of their patchwork of subclassifications, adopting in its place a "single standard" under which liability...

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