Court Opinion

ID: 9517546
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 00:20:18.462824+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:54:52.440281
License: Public Domain

Mr. JUSTICE GEORGE J. MORAN specially concurring: I agree that the trial court was correct in granting defendant’s motion for summary judgment based on the facts of this case because a storekeeper should have no duty to remove natural accumulations of ice or snow from the entrance to his building when the store is not open for business. However, the majority opinion goes beyond the facts of this case and is authority for the proposition that the owner has no obligation to remove natural accumulations of ice and snow from the vestibules of stores open for business which customers are using for ingress and egress, no matter how long the accumulation has been there and no matter how dangerous the condition. In my opinion we should not go this far, but should confine this opinion to the facts in this case. None of the cases cited by the majority involves a situation where a customer was injured within the building area. The area where this accident happened was actually on the store premises and if the store had been open for business I am not sure that I would vote to affirm. Schallinger v. Great Atlantic & Pac. Tea Co., 334 Mass. 386, 135 N.E.2d 655.