Blumenschine v. New Plan Realty Trust

Judith Ann Lanzingek, Judge.

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Norma E. Blumenschine filed this personal injury action against New Plan Realty Trust (“NPRT”), Seaway Foodtown, Inc. (“Foodtown”), and Creque Brothers Landscape Company, Inc.1 Her husband filed a claim for consortium. Ms. Blumenschine fell on December 21, 1991 on the access ramp of a Foodtown Supermarket located at 2527 Parkway Plaza, Maumee, in Lucas County, Ohio, and fractured her hip. She alleges that defendants failed to maintain the ramp in a safe and dry condition and that, as a result, an unnatural accumulation of ice and snow created a slippery and…