Miller v. Wadsworth City Schools

Baird, Judge.

This cause comes before the court upon the appeal of Julianne B. and Charles Miller from the judgment of the Medina County Court of Common Pleas granting summary judgment to the Wadsworth City Schools (“the school board”). We affirm.

On September 16, 1989, the Millers attended a high school cross-country meet at the Wadsworth High School Stadium, a facility owned by the school board. While retrieving her son’s dry clothing after the competition, Ms. Miller stepped in a hole in the ground and fell, breaking her ankle. The area where she fell is near the top of a short grassy hill…