Backman v. Vickers Petroleum Co‪.‬

The opinion of the court was delivered by Mrs. Backman sued the Vickers company alleging that she had slipped on a patch of ice on a parking lot while visiting the company's central offices on the evening of December 12, 1956, and that Vickers company had been negligent in allowing the ice to form on the parking lot and that therefore the company was responsible for her severe personal injuries. At the trial of the case, the court sustained a demurrer to plaintiff's evidence, and she appeals. As the court views the instant case, the controlling question in the appeal is the status of Mrs. Backman at the time of her visit to the company's office on the night in question. Was she a business invitee or was she a mere licensee?