Berger v. Cornwell

Pee Cueiam.

Defendants Cornwell owed plaintiff, an invitee, the legal duty to maintain their parking area in such condition as a reasonably careful and prudent proprietor would deem sufficient to protect patrons from danger while exercising ordinary care for their own safety. Sledge v. Wagoner, 250 N.C. 559, 109 S.E. 2d 180.

All the evidence tends to show that the place where Soesbee parked the taxi was shaded by a pine tree hedge and was lower than other portions of the parking area. There was evidence tending to show that, in the shaded area where Soesbee parked, there were icy spots…