DEBIE v. COCHRAN PHARMACY-BERWICK, INC.

No. 40671.

11 Ohio St. 2d 38 (1967)

DEBIE ET AL., APPELLANTS, v. COCHRAN PHARMACY-BERWICK, INC., ET AL., APPELLEES.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided June 28, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Carl B. Mellman, for appellants.

Messrs. Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease, Mr. Edgar A. Strause, Mr. Thomas M. Taggart, Messrs. Caren, Lane, Huggard, Alton & Horst and Mr. Collis Gundy Lane, for appellees.


BROWN, J.

The question presented is whether defendants owed a duty to plaintiff wife, a business invitee, to remove natural accumulations of snow and ice from the sidewalk.

An examination of cases involving falls on natural accumulations of snow and ice on public sidewalks is helpful but not dispositive of the case before us. The general rule governing those cases is that the owner or occupier owes no duty to...

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