Matyas v. Suburban Trust Co.

On the 4th day of December, 1967, the appellant Ludvik A. Matyas was walking to the branch office of the Suburban Trust Company, located in a shopping center in College Park, Maryland, for the purpose of cashing a check. At the time there was an accumulation of snow of some four days standing. The appellant was on a public sidewalk abutting the north side of the bank as he approached the shopping center property. He stepped over a snowdrift, slipped on an unseen piece of ice, and was injured. The sidewalk, which was part of the College Park street system, had not been cleared on the day of…