Robinson v. Cianfarini
Annotate this CasePlaintiff was injured when she fell on a patch of snow and ice on a sidewalk. The sidewalk was owned by the town of Enfield and abutted the property of Defendants, private landowners. Defendants filed a motion for summary judgment, arguing that town ordinances requiring landowners whose property abuts public sidewalks to clear those sidewalks of ice and snow does not impose civil liability on the property owners for injuries to third parties. The trial court granted the motion for summary judgment. Plaintiff appealed, arguing that, although the ordinances did not transfer civil liability on the property owners, Defendants may be held liable under alternative negligence theories. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that Plaintiff’s alternative theories of common-law liability based on negligence failed and that liability was not shifted to the landowners in this case.
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