Johnson v. Hawkins

ROSE, Chief Justice.

The principal issue in this case is whether a storekeeper or his landlord owes a duty to customers to keep the public sidewalk outside the store free of accumulations of ice and snow. In this case there is no claim that a city ordinance imposed such a duty. The trial court found no such duty and awarded summary judgment in favor of the defendants. We will affirm.

THE FACTS

For purposes of testing a summary judgment, we accept as true the facts alleged by the party against whom summary judgment was given. E. g., Miller v. Reiman-Wuerth Co., Wyo., 598 P.2d 20 (1979). Under…