Jimenez v. OMNI ROYAL ORLEANS HOTEL

PAUL A. BONIN, Judge.

LAs part of his employment duties with the Omni Royal Orleans Hotel, Roland Randall had removed a manhole cover in order- to read a water meter, which was located below a sidewalk next to the hotel. While he was recording the reading, an approaching pedestrian, Edgar Sierra Jimenez, fell into the uncovered manhole. Mr. Jimenez sued the hotel 1 for damages for failing to warn him of the uncovered manhole. The trial judge, finding that the uncovered manhole was “open and obvious” and that Mr. Jimenez was “100% at fault,” dismissed Mr. Jimenez’s suit with prejudice.

Mr.…