Mattson v. St. Luke's Hospital

Matson, Justice.

Appeal from an order granting defendant’s motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict.

The sole question presented by this appeal is whether a private hospital, in the discharge of its duty of exercising reasonable care for the safety of an invitee, is permitted as a matter of law — absent extraordinary circumstances — to wait for the end of a freezing rain and sleet-storm, and for a reasonable time thereafter, before removing ice and snow from its entrance steps, landings, and sidewalks which are exposed to the elements.

Taking, as we must, the evidence in the light most…