Spivey v. Board of Education

Banke, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal from a grant of summary judgment to the defendant in a slip-and-fall action.

The plaintiff fell while descending a concrete or stone stairway at the front entrance to a public elementary school operated by the defendant. She had been called to the school to pick up her son, a third grader who had been placed “in detention” due to misconduct and had thus missed his ride home on the school bus. There was no handrail on the stairway, and as it had been raining that day the steps were wet. The plaintiff testified that she realized the steps were slippery as…