Brown v. Alliance Real Estate Group

¶ 1 The issue presented is whether the district court’s summary judgment was proper. We find that the plaintiffs’ summary judgment evidence raises a genuine issue of the material fact of defendants’ duty to protect plaintiff from a hidden danger and therefore, we hold that summary judgment was improper.

¶2 Linda Brown was injured when she slipped and fell on an patch of ice outside the door of Marolyn Pryor’s real estate office. Brown and her husband filed suit against the premises owners alleging that they were negligent in that they failed to clear the path of ingress and egress to their…