Court Opinion

ID: 9850725
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 05:01:58.778006+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:20:42.379668
License: Public Domain

Weaver, J.
(concurring in part and dissenting in part). I concur with the result in Maurer v Oakland Co. However, in Bertrand v Alan Ford, I do not agree that there was a genuine issue of material fact for the jury or that summary disposition was inappropriate. Cases finding that the risk of harm is unreasonable despite its obviousness or despite the invitee’s awareness of the condition are rare and typically involve hazardous natural conditions such as accumulations of snow and ice or excessive mud.* The risk to the invitee in such conditions has been held to be somehow more unavoidable than other conditions, thereby creat*626ing an exception to the open and obvious defense. I believe that this exception, when extended to the facts in Bertrand, threatens to swallow the open and obvious defense and render summary disposition impossible. I would reverse the decision of the Court of Appeals and reinstate the trial court’s summary disposition in Bertrand.

 See, e.g., Quinlivan v The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co, Inc, 395 Mich 244; 235 NW2d 732 (1975); Van Deusen v Fountainview Terraces, 69 Mich App 199; 244 NW2d 411 (1976); Perry v Hazel Park Harness Raceway, 123 Mich App 542; 332 NW2d 601 (1983); Bauer v Garden City, 139 Mich App 354; 362 NW2d 280 (1984); Lundy v Groty, 141 Mich App 757; 367 NW2d 448 (1985); Clink v Steiner, 162 Mich App 551; 413 NW2d 45 (1987); Zielinski v Szokola, 167 Mich App 611; 423 NW2d 289 (1988).