Ralph M. Goodwin v. Al J. Schneider Company D/b/a Galt House & Galt House East

Summary

The Kentucky Supreme Court reversed summary judgment for the hotel in a slip-and-fall case involving a slippery bathtub without a bathmat. It held that an open-and-obvious condition does not eliminate an innkeeper's duty of reasonable care, and that the proper question is whether the hotel took reasonable steps to address the risk, creating a fact issue for further proceedings. The court remanded for reconsideration of summary judgment under that framework.