VAN DEUSEN v. FOUNTAINVIEW TERRACES, INC.

Docket No. 23071.

69 Mich. App. 199 (1976)

244 N.W.2d 411

VAN DEUSEN v. FOUNTAINVIEW TERRACES, INC.

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided May 27, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stavoe & Deegan, for plaintiff.

Alexander, Buchanan & Seavitt (by Floyd S. Westcott), for defendant Fountainview Terraces, Inc.

Eggenberger, Eggenberger, McKinney & Weber, for Tri-County Sanitation Services, Inc.

Before: BASHARA, P.J., and R.B. BURNS and QUINN, JJ.


Leave to appeal denied, 397 Mich. 843.

R.B. BURNS, J.

Plaintiff was injured in a fall while attempting to deposit her garbage in a dumpster maintained on defendant landlord's property. She appeals from a directed verdict for defendants. We reverse.

The testimony at trial established that the dumpster sat on a bare ground surface, and was situated 2-1/2 to 4 feet beyond the curb bounding the paved parking lot of the apartment house. Plaintiff, 80 years...

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