Kalata v. Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.

PRESIDING JUSTICE BUCKLEY

delivered the opinion of the court:

Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. (defendant), appeals from a damages award entered in favor of Bernard Kalata (plaintiff) for personal injuries plaintiff sustained after slipping on a snow-and ice-covered landing located at a warehouse owned by defendant and leased to plaintiffs employer. Defendant contends on appeal that the trial court erred when it concluded that defendant negligently permitted an unnatural accumulation of ice and snow to occur and that the absence of a second handrail proximately caused plaintiffs injury. For the…