Lange v. Wehrenberg Theaters, Inc.

PUDLOWSKI, Judge.

This case raises the issue of whether abutting property owners or lessees may assume a duty to pedestrians to inspect and maintain public sidewalks absent any affirmative action on their part which creates a dangerous condition.

Edmund J. Lange, Jr. appeals from separate grants of summary judgment to Weh-renberg Theaters, Inc. and Boatmen’s National Bank. The relevant facts are as follows.

Boatmen’s Bank is trastee and Wehren-berg Theaters is lessee of the property housing the Shady Oak Theater on Forsyth Boulevard in Clayton, Missouri. Appellant Lange is confined to a…