Denny v. Kostadinovski

Defendants appeal by leave granted from the decision of the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board awarding compensation for a slip and fall injury occurring in a public alleyway behind defendant’s premises.

On December 4, 1972, plaintiff was employed as a cashier and sales clerk at defendants’ bakery. She left work that day through the rear entrance of the establishment which led into the alley. Plaintiff lived about five houses away. The ground was covered with ice and snow, and plaintiff fell 10 or 20 feet from the bakery, fracturing her right leg.

In an opinion dated April 13, 1977, a workers’…