Geise v. Lee

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• imposing the duty on mobile home park owners to keep the driveways between the homes safe for pedestrian traffic where snow and ice created dangerous conditions
• imposing the duty on mobile home park owners to keep the driveways between the homes safe for pedestrian traffic where snow and ice created dangerous conditions
• rejecting the \natural accumulations\ rule insulating landlords for harms arising from the presence of snow or ice on the premises, and adopting instead a negligence standard imposing a duty to keep common areas reasonably safe
• imposing liability in a state accustomed to snow and ice because landlords are already “ ‘armed with an ample supply of salt, sand, scrapers, shovels and even perhaps a snow blower’” (quoting Fuller v. Hous. Auth. of Providence, 108 R.I. 770, 279 A.2d 438, 440 (1971))
• imposing liability in a state accustomed to snow and ice because landlords are already “‘armed with an ample supply of salt, sand, scrapers, shovels and even perhaps a snow blower’” (quoting Fuller v. Hous . Auth. of Providence , 279 A.2d 438, 440 (R.I. 1971)
• mobile home park owner who has actual or constructive notice of hazard has a duty to remove dangerous accumulations of ice and snow from common areas

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