Gilberg v. Toys" R" US, Inc.

PRESIDING JUSTICE HARTMAN

delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiff slipped and fell on a 1 foot by 2 feet patch of ice in defendant’s parking lot. His complaint claimed that defendant’s tortious conduct in allowing ice to accumulate in a depression in the pavement was the proximate cause of his injuries. The circuit court denied plaintiff’s request for a change of venue, found no evidence that the patch was an unnatural accumulation of ice and granted defendant’s motion for summary judgment. Plaintiff appeals, claiming: (1) the change of venue was erroneously denied; (2) summary judgment…