McClain v. The Drinkery

Citations

• 180 N.E.3d 1254
• 2021 Ohio 4161

Syllabus

PREMISES LIABILITY – OPEN AND OBVIOUS: The trial court erred in granting summary judgment in favor defendants property owner and manager on plaintiff's personal-injury claim where the hazard posed by the slabs of pool table slates that caused plaintiff's injury was not open obvious because reasonable minds could differ as to whether the slabs' weight and their potential to fall would have been observable by a reasonable person through ordinary inspection.