Vinyard v. Vinyard Funeral Home, Inc.

CLEMENS, Commissioner.

Plaintiff got a verdict and $13,000 judgment for injuries from a fall on defendant’s parking lot. (Plaintiff was the daughter-in-law of the corporate defendant’s president.) Defendant appeals, challenging the sufficiency of plaintiff’s evidence, the form of her verdict-directing instruction, and the admission of evidence about other patrons slipping on the parking lot.

Defendant contends the evidence failed to show that its premises were unsafe and, even so, that the condition was undiscovera-ble by plaintiff. We recite the verdict-consistent evidence.

In short, one rainy…