MEGAL v. VISITOR & CONVENTION BUREAU

No. 02-2932.

267 Wis.2d 800 (2003)

2003 WI App 230

672 N.W.2d 105

Nancy MEGAL, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. GREEN BAY AREA VISITOR & CONVENTION BUREAU, INC., Valley Forge Insurance Company, and Tommy G. Thompson, Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Defendants-Respondents.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Decided October 7, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

On behalf of the plaintiff-appellant, the cause was submitted on the briefs of John C. Peterson of Peterson, Berk & Cross, S.C., Appleton.

On behalf of the defendants-respondents, the cause was submitted on the brief of William J. Ewald and Tina M. Dahle, Denissen, Kranzush, Mahoney & Ewald, S.C., Green Bay, and Kenneth E. Rusch, O'Hagan, Smith & Amundsen, Milwaukee.

Before Cane, C.J., Hoover, P.J., and Peterson, J.


¶ 1. PETERSON, J.

Nancy Megal appeals a summary judgment dismissing her claim of a safe-place violation. Megal slipped and fell on a french fry when she was walking down a stairway at the Brown County Veterans Memorial Arena. In order to prevail, Megal must ordinarily be able to prove actual or constructive notice-that the arena knew the french fry was on the stairway or that the french fry was there long enough so...

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