HATFIELD v. UNIVERSAL SERVICES, INC.

No. 4743.

622 P.2d 984 (1981)

David HATFIELD, Appellant, v. UNIVERSAL SERVICES, INC., A Texas Corporation, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

February 6, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Lee Petersen, A. Lee Petersen, Inc., Anchorage, for appellant.

Clay A. Young, Delaney, Wiles, Moore, Hayes & Reitman, Inc., Anchorage, for appellee.

Before RABINOWITZ, C.J., CONNOR, BURKE and MATTHEWS, JJ., and COOKE, Superior Court Judge.


OPINION

PER CURIAM.

This is a "slip and fall" tort case.

The court's instructions on appellee's duty of care were adequate.

We are unpersuaded by appellant's contention that in a case of this type the jury must be instructed as to how a reasonable person performs the activity of walking.1 Even if the requested instruction was a proper statement of the law, the failure...

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