WADE v. DODGE

No. 89-315.

591 A.2d 77 (1991)

Deborah A. WADE v. Richard H. DODGE.

Supreme Court of Vermont.

March 29, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Eric Anderson and Patricia M. Beu, Law Clerk, on the brief, of Fitts, Olson, Carnahan, Anderson & Bump, Brattleboro, for plaintiff-appellee.

Robert D. Rachlin and Charles N. Hurt, Jr. of Downs Rachlin & Martin, Burlington, for defendant-appellant.

Before ALLEN, C.J., GIBSON, DOOLEY and MORSE, JJ., and BARNEY, C.J. (Ret.), Specially Assigned.


MORSE, Justice.

The only issue in this appeal from a plaintiff's verdict in a personal injury action is whether there was sufficient evidence of foreseeability of harm to submit the issue of negligence to the jury. We affirm.

On August 18, 1983, plaintiff was a tenant in defendant's four-unit apartment building in Bellows Falls, Vermont, when she fell from a second floor porch seriously injuring herself. The accident happened while a group of young people...

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