¶1(dissenting). Guilford v. Yale University, 128 Conn. 449, 23 A. 2d 917, was carefully considered, and this court unanimously approved a holding that the question whether a social visitor was a licensee or an invitee was one of fact. The circumstances in the case at bar were entirely different from those in the Guilfordcase but seem to me to be governed by the same principle. The matter is well summed up by Sir *477Frederick Pollock, who in his work on Torts ([14th Ed.] p. 422) remarked: “[W]hy in common reason should a person invited for the occupier’s pleasure be worse off than one who is about business concerning both?” The holding in the majority opinion doubtless accords with the weight of authority, but for the reasons stated in the Guilfordcase I do not see why a social visitor, at least one enjoying an express invitation, should not receive the protection accorded an invitee. See Prosser, “Business Visitors & Invitees,” 26 Minn. L. Rev. 573. My inability to agree in the result is due only to the fact that the husband is found not liable. While I shall feel bound by the ruling in the majority opinion in the future, I am, as the author of the recent Guilfordcase, impelled to dissent.
137 Conn. 469
Laube v. Stevenson
Decided January 30, 1951
Supreme Court of Connecticut · decided 1951-01-30
Key passage — most relied on by later courts
“why in common reason should a person invited for the occupier's pleasure be worse off than one who is about business concerning both?”
quoted by 1 later decision, including 98 So. 2d 730 - Alexander v. General Accident Fire & L. Assur. Corp.
Relies on Guilford v. Yale University
Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know
Decided 1951-01-30
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently December 2002 · most notably Dougherty v. Graham (1971), Furstein v. Hill (1991)
11 federal appellate · 86 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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