Donovan v. Kane

The action is for personal injuries suffered "by the plaintiff when he slipped and fell on the sidewalk in front of defendant’s premises. The complaint alleges that the defendant’s servant undertook to remove an accumulation of ice and snow while rain was falling and forming a new coating of ice on the sidewalk, which created an unsafe condition and constituted a nuisance which the defendant failed to rectify. The plaintiff recognizes the general rule that an action for personal injuries cannot be predicated upon an abutting property owner’s failure to remove a natural accumulation of ice and…