Section 13.25 History

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A. (§13.25) History

Historically, licensees took the premises as they found them, barring some form of intentional wrong or active negligence on the part of the possessor. Mere permission to be on the premises, when the permission involved no benefit to the possessor, bestowed a license on the visitor but bestowed no right to care. The position of a licensee was comparable to that of the consumer of yesteryear: "Visitor, Beware." Glaser v. Rothschild, 120 S.W. 1 (Mo. banc 1909). The only duty that a...