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HARPSTER v. HETHERINGTON

No. C9-93-787.

512 N.W.2d 585 (1994)

Carolyn HARPSTER, Respondent, v. Thomas HETHERINGTON, et al., Petitioners, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

March 4, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bradley C. Warner, Jack D. Moore & Associates, St. Paul, for appellant.

Rodney J. Mason and Gerald P. Barnaby, Chandler & Mason, Ltd., St. Paul, for respondent.

Considered and decided by the court en banc without oral argument.

PER CURIAM.

In this slip-and-fall case, the conduct of defendants claimed and found to be negligent was not, as a matter of law, a direct cause of plaintiff's injuries. We reverse the court of appeals' affirmance of the jury's verdict.

Mrs. Harpster (the plaintiff) and Mr. and Mrs. Hetherington (the defendants) are good friends and next-door neighbors. About midday on December 17, 1988, Mrs. Harpster walked over to the Hetherington house — the two neighbors...

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