VT Continues to Reject Attractive Nuisance Doctrine

Treadway v. Green Mt. Power Corp., 2026 VT 20 at**¶¶ 16-18, 31, ___ A.3d___, ___ (2026) ((declining to alter common law and adopt attractive nuisance doctrine under Restatement (Second) of Torts §339 (Am. L. Inst. 1965); “[U]nder Vermont’s common law, absent willful or wanton conduct, ‘[o]ur rule is that the owner or occupant is under no obligation to [protect] a trespasser, whether adult or child,’ from injury by reason of the claimed unsafe and dangerous condition of the premises.” (omitting internal citation)).