Evans v. Johnson

This is a slip and fall case coming to us on leave granted on plaintiffs petition for leave to appeal a June 24, 1982, opinion and order of the circuit court for Wayne County, affirming a common pleas court jury verdict of no cause of action. Leave to appeal was granted by this Court on March 18, 1983. A certified statement of facts was adopted by the Wayne Circuit Court.

Plaintiffs complaint, filed in April, 1977, alleges that, on July 21, 1974, at "Ethel’s Lounge” in Detroit, plaintiff sustained serious personal injuries "when she slipped and fell on an unlighted defective step near the…