Manheim Services Corp. v. Connell

Banke, Judge.

This is an interlocutory appeal from the denial of a motion for summary judgment filed by the defendant in a slip-and-fall case. The facts are undisputed. Defendant is the operator of a weekly auto auction which plaintiff had regularly attended for five years prior to his fall. The auction is held in a barn-like structure with various lanes through which the vehicles enter to be sold. Between several of the lane entrances and parallel to the front of the building were brick walls, one of which the plaintiff fell over. The wall in question is located about five feet from the front…