Section 13.6 Ingress and Egress

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2. (§13.6) Ingress and Egress

The scope of any invitation necessarily includes a means of ingress and egress to the premises. Accordingly, a possessor owes a duty to invitees to provide them with a reasonably safe means to both enter and leave the premises. Olds v. St. Louis Nat’l Baseball Club, 104 S.W.2d 746, 751 (Mo. App. E.D. 1937); O’Connell v. Roper Elec. Co., 498 S.W.2d 847 (Mo. App. S.D. 1973). In Albers v. Gehlert, 409 S.W.2d 682 (Mo. 1966), the plaintiff had gone to the defendant’s home to...