Nellie Lou Lillie, Plaintiff-Appellant/cross-Appellee v. United States of America, Defendant-Appellee/cross-Appellant

HENRY, Circuit Judge.

These four appeals derive from the same underlying action commenced and pursued to a partially favorable judgment by plaintiff under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), 28 U.S.C. §§ 1346(b), 2671-2680. 1 Plaintiff sued the government for maintenance of a dangerous condition that caused her to fall and injure herself on the steps outside the United States Post Office in Sand Springs, Oklahoma, early on the morning of August 15, 1987. A first trial resulted in a defense verdict, reversed on appeal due to the district court’s extra-judicial examination of the accident scene.…