Section 13.86 Objects Intentionally Placed on Parking Lots

• Library: Tort Law 2016

In Hopkins v. Sefton Fibre Can Co., 390 S.W.2d 907 (Mo. App. E.D. 1965), it was held that there is nothing unusual about the use of concrete or wooden dividers or bumpers on parking lots to designate and divide parking areas. The court recognized that the presence of these dividers is a matter of common knowledge and that people use them without injury or inconvenience. Accordingly, the court rejected the plaintiff’s claim that the presence of dividers constituted a defect that would support a cause of...