Shannon v. Washington University

CLEMENS, Judge.

Defendant has appealed a $10,000 judgment entered pursuant to a verdict for plaintiff who was injured when he slipped and fell on defendant’s icy sidewalk. Defendant challenges the submissibility of plaintiff’s evidence.

During the night of December 11, 1972 and continuing through the next afternoon, the St. Louis area experienced an ice storm, intermittent but severe, resulting in a widespread glaze of ice. At defendant’s campus a ground crew began work early in the morning to remove the ice by chipping and salting the walkways and parking lots. By 4:00 o’clock the campus was…