Robinson v. Arnold

RICHARD B. TEITELMAN, Judge.

Plaintiff Wilhelmina Robinson filed suit against defendants Sidney and Flora Arnold for personal injuries she sustained as a result of her fall on a defective area of public sidewalk located in front of defendants’ commercial property. The trial court entered summary judgment in favor of defendants on the ground that, as a matter of law, defendants owed no duty to plaintiff to maintain the sidewalk. On appeal, plaintiff contends that although the general rule is that abutting landowners do not owe pedestrians a duty to maintain the public sidewalk, the facts of…