Hale v. City of Anchorage

DIMOND, Justice.

Appellant, Lula Hale, brought this action for personal injuries after she slipped and fell upon ice on a public sidewalk in the City of Anchorage in December 1958. In a brief oral decision at the end of the trial the judge found that appellant was contrib-utorily negligent, and directed entry of judgment for the city. More than one year after the trial, a formal judgment was entered by a successor judge — the trial judge in the meantime having been retired for disability.

Before reaching the main issue in this case, there are two other points to consider. Appellant first…