Debie v. Cochran Pharmacy-Berwick, Inc.

The question presented is whether defendants owed a duty to plaintiff wife, a business invitee, to remove natural accumulations of snow and ice from the sidewalk.

An examination of cases involving falls on natural accumulations of snow and ice on public sidewalks is helpful but not dispositive of the case before us. The general rule governing those cases is that the owner or occupier owes no duty to keep the public sidewalk free from natural accumulations of snow and ice. Annotation, 82 A. L. R. 2d 998; 27 Ohio Jurisprudence 2d 401, Highways and Streets, Section 297.

Here, the defendants are…