Harris v. Old Kent Bank

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• defendant had duty to fix fewer than two-inch defect because defect was located near business’s primary point of ingress/egress
• bank had duty to repair even minimal defects because sidewalk was used by every customer entering or exiting bank
• the fact that the defect was at the sole entry to the defendant’s business, where plaintiffs are expected to be distracted, was sufficient to create an issue of fact
• “this was not a situation similar to that of a municipality or shopping center where the burden of repairing all defects on miles or hundreds of thousands of square feet would be substantial.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).