Parker v. Tiny Tot Toys

The store featured various displays, including one depicting character Buzz Light Year in a rocket. The display would fly overhead and call out, "To Infinity and Beyond!" every ten seconds. Plaintiff's son (Dustin) asked to see the display, and Plaintiff took her son to the third floor of the store.

Plaintiff instructed Dustin to remain at the Buzz Light Year display while she shopped in a different department on that same floor. She glanced over at him five minutes later and saw him standing where she'd left him, as she'd instructed. Plaintiff then became distracted when her other child suddenly threw a tantrum in another aisle.

Three feet behind the Buzz Light Year display was a lit supply room whose door had been left slightly ajar. The door displayed a "Do Not Enter" sign. During the time that Plaintiff attended to her second child's tantrum, Dustin entered the room to discover that several more Buzz Light Year toys like the display model were suspended from the ceiling of that room. He located a step stool, climb

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efendant obviously knew that children are likely to be present in a toy store. But whether being in a toy store's restricted access areas is tantamount to "trespass" is debatable. ("'[W]hen children of tender years [come] upon the premises by virtue of their unusual attractiveness, the legal effect [is] that of an implied invitation to do so. Such child [is] regarded, not as a trespasser, but as being rightfully on the premises.'" Texas Util., supra at 193, quoting, Banker v. McLaughlin, 146 Tex. 434, 208 S.W.2d 843, 847.) Traditionally, the concept of attractive nuisance, though, has been limited to true trespass situations to property out of doors. See, e.g., Texas Utilities, supra at 192 (minor climbed an outdoor power station tower), Brownfield, supra at 774 (minor playing on railroad trestle), Jannette v. Deprez, 701 S.W.2d 56 (Tex. App. 1985) (minor diving into water filled quarry). Cf. Way v. Boy Scouts of America, 856 S.W.2d 230, 237-238 (Tex. App. 1993)(publication of article magazine geared towards minors about guns and shooting not premises liability and therefore not attractive nuisance.) By contrast, the facts of the instant case involve a licensee situation. A licensee is someone who is "on the premises wit
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