Wade v. Dodge

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 were partying and one of them, as a stunt to give the impression he had fallen off the porch, climbed down a porch post out of sight. At the time, plaintiff…