Basso v. Miller

New York Court of Appeals · Decided 1976-06-17

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Chief Judge Breitel (concurring). I concur in the result reached by the majority but for different reasons. Abandoning all the rules governing liability of a possessor to one injured on his property, rules evolved progressively in the common-law process over the past 200 years, the court substitutes an amorphous "single standard” of "reasonable care under the circumstances”. Apart from being unnecessary to d…

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