Rice v. Sabir

OPINION

ANDERSON, Chief Justice.

In this premises liability case, the issue is whether the owner of a house owed a duty of care to warn a contractor of the existence of mildew on the house roof upon which he had been hired to work and from which he fell and was injured.

The trial court granted the owner a summary judgment, concluding that no duty of care was owed because the owner did not hire or authorize the hiring of the contractor and because the independent contractor was injured by an obvious, readily observable condition. The Court of Appeals reversed the grant of a summary judgment after…