Nelson v. Freeland

*616WYNN, Justice.

The sole issue arising out of the case sub judice is whether defendant Dean Freeland’s (“Freeland”) act of leaving a stick on his porch constituted negligence. Indeed, this case presents us with the simplest of factual scenarios — Freeland requested that plaintiff John Harvey Nelson (“Nelson”) pick him up at his house for a business meeting the two were attending, and Nelson, while doing so, tripped over a stick that Freeland had inadvertently left lying on his porch. Nelson brought this action against Freeland and his wife seeking damages for the injuries he sustained in the…