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- Title: Ernest F. Kremer v. Carr's Food Center
- Author : Supreme Court of Alaska
- Release Date : January 22, 1969
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 64 KB
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RABINOWITZ, Justice. OPINION The central issue in this appeal concerns the trial court's entry of a directed verdict against
appellant Ernest F. Kremer. In the superior court, Kremer instituted a personal injury action against appellee Carr's Food Center, Inc. In his complaint,
Kremer alleged that he was a business invitee of Carr's and while walking in the latter's parking lot slipped and fell as
a result of accumulations of ice and snow which had been permitted to form into "deep ruts and sharp ridges" which were dangerous.
1 After Kremer had rested his case in chief, Carr's moved for a directed verdict. The gravamen of Carr's motion was that
"natural accumulations of ice and snow" cannot furnish the basis for a claim of negligence, particularly in the circumstance
where such ice and snow conditions are as well known to the plaintiff as to the defendant. The superior court granted Carr's
motion and entered judgment against Kremer. The basis of the trial court's decision to grant the motion for directed verdict
is disclosed in the following portions of the court's oral decision.