Court Opinion

ID: 9648875
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 14:37:00.875678+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:12:05.978232
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ROBERTS, Justice,
concurring.
I agree with the majority that judgment n. o. v. was properly entered in favor of both defendants, but for a *356different reason. As the trial court, en banc, and the Superior Court concluded, appellant unreasonably failed to take precautions against an obvious risk. At trial, appellant testified that in the course of falling down the basement steps of the house he was inspecting, he was able to see that a step was missing. Thus, by his own testimony, appellant “fail[edj to observe a dangerous condition plainly visible and nevertheless proceeded] without regard to his own safety.” Miller v. Board of Exeter, 366 Pa. 336, 340, 77 A.2d 395, 398 (1951).