Norman v. City of Gillette

ROSE, Justice.

PART I

The issue presented by this appeal is whether a city and an adjoining landowner will be liable for an injury to a pedestrian who, because of a barricade on the sidewalk, undertakes to walk in the street where he slips and falls while traversing a mound of snow and ice. The district judge granted summary judgment for both the city and the parties who owned the adjoining land around whose property the barricade was erected. The court will affirm.

The opinion of the court is divided into two parts because of a division on the court. Part I furnishes an introduction to the…