Buonopane v. M. Co., Ltd.

Citations

• 201 N.E.3d 1015
• 2022 Ohio 4210

Syllabus

Civ. R 56 summary judgment open and obvious attendant circumstances. The trial court correctly granted summary judgment to a restaurant when appellant fell on the sidewalk in front of the restaurant entrance. The appellant admitted she was not looking where she was walking because she was looking at the signs on the restaurant door, but if she had looked down, she would have seen the expansion joint in the sidewalk. The small expansion joint between the two sections of the sidewalk was an open and obvious hazard, and the COVID-19 signs posted on the restaurant doors were not attendant circumstances that created an issue of fact.