Wright v. Las Vegas Hacienda, Inc.

OPINION

This is an appeal from a judgment pursuant to a jury verdict in a personal injury action, and from an order of the district court denying appellant’s motion for a new trial. Because we conclude that the district court abused its discretion in excluding the testimony of appellant’s expert at trial, we reverse.

Appellant injured her ankle when she tripped and fell on respondent’s stairway. The stair on which appellant tripped was the last stair before the first landing of the stairway. It had a metal strip across its tip that was raised about one-eighth of an inch. None of the other…