Bauer v. City of Garden City

Plaintiff appeals as of right from a grant of summary judgment for failure to state a claim, GCR 1963, 117.2(1). We reverse.

By her complaint, plaintiff alleged that she injured her thumb when she fell on a shopping center parking lot. She was returning from one of the stores in the shopping center to her automobile when she fell. Defendant owns the parking lot. Plaintiff claimed that defendant breached a duty owed to invitees of the shopping center to remove ice and snow from the parking lot. According to plaintiff, this breach of duty resulted in an unsafe condition and caused her fall.

The…