Grier v. JEFFCO MANAGEMENT COMPANY

Banke, Chief Judge.

The plaintiff sued the owners and the manager of her apartment building to recover for injuries she allegedly sustained when she slipped and fell on a patch of frozen precipitation which had formed overnight on an outside walkway providing access to her apartment. The defendants were granted summary judgment, and the plaintiff filed this appeal.

The plaintiff’s fall occurred at about 9:30 a.m., as she was attempting to exit the premises to keep a doctor’s appointment. The defendants had taken no action to remove or alter the natural accumulation of snow and ice which had…