Little v. Howard Johnson Co.

Defendant appeals by leave granted from a circuit court opinion reversing a district court order which granted defendant’s motion for summary disposition pursuant to MCR 2.116(0(10). We conclude that the district court properly granted defendant’s motion and accordingly reverse.

Plaintiff was injured on January 23, 1982, when she slipped on a walkway which allegedly had not been adequately cleared of ice and snow. The walkway was located on property on which a restaurant business was being operated as a franchise of defendant, Howard Johnson Company.

Plaintiff filed suit in circuit court…