Is there any case law where a defendant piled snow up on either side of a walkway requiring a higher level of inspection?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from Hawman v. Regina Exhibition Association Ltd., 1999 SKQB 123 (CanLII):
In Warman v. Kamloops Silver Threads Apartments Society, [1997] B.C.J. No. 1616 (QL) (S.C.), the defendant piled snow up on either side of a walkway. Hunter J. found, at para. 13, that these circumstances required the defendant to exercise a higher level of inspection: “... This [the inspection] is more of a concern where snow is piled on either side of the pathway—which I understand to be the case on the day in question—being a source of water thus likely to become ice on the pathway as a result of the melting and freezing which occurs with the rise and fall of the temperature”.
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