FAD Ltd. Partnership v. Feagley

In this case, we decide whether a landlord had a duty to remove ice from the porch and steps of an apartment house while moisture was still falling and freezing.

On December 28, 1983, Margaret Feagley, a tenant in a large apartment complex owned by FAD Limited Partnership and managed by Beltway Management, Inc. (the landlord), suffered a compression fracture in her upper back when she fell on the icy surface of the front porch of her apartment house. Feagley sued the landlord. A jury returned a verdict in favor of Feagley in the sum of $30,000. The landlord appeals the judgment entered upon…