CORBETT v. ASSOCIATION OF APT. OWNERS

No. 12957.

772 P.2d 693 (1989)

Margaret CORBETT, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ASSOCIATION OF APARTMENT OWNERS OF WAILUA BAYVIEW APARTMENTS, Defendant-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

May 2, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas R. Spencer, Honolulu, for appellant.

Jeffrey S. Portnoy, Cades Schutte Fleming & Wright, Honolulu, for appellee.

Before LUM, C.J., and NAKAMURA, PADGETT, HAYASHI and WAKATSUKI, JJ.


PADGETT, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of the defendant/possessor of land pursuant to a jury verdict, in a slip-and-fall case.

Appellant Margaret Corbett allegedly injured herself when she stepped off of a paved sidewalk on appellee's premises and fell. She claims that the cause of her fall was the four- or five-inch difference in height between the paved sidewalk and the adjoining lawn.

The appeal is based upon claimed error...

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