Lenz v. Ridgewood Associates

WELLS, Judge.

In one of his assignments of error, plaintiff contends the trial court erred in granting defendants’ motion for a directed verdict at the close of plaintiff’s evidence. We agree with plaintiffs argument and reverse.

The grounds stated by defendants in their motion clearly define the issues in the appeal. Defendants’ motion asserted that because the evidence showed the ice on defendants’ premises resulted from a natural accumulation, defendants had no duty to plaintiff; but that if there were a duty, defendants had not breached it; and that if there were evidence of a duty and a…