Stearns v. SUGARBUSH VALLEY CORPORATION

The plaintiff was awarded a judgment in a slip- and-fall case tried by the court. The defendant contests the result by challenging both the findings of fact and conclusions of law in this appeal.

The accident happened during the ski season, in January, 1969. The plaintiff and a companion, now his wife, went to a public facility owned by the defendant known as the Wonder Bar. On the way from the public parking area to the premises the plaintiff used a path for the purpose that was something over six hundred feet long and, in part, steeply uphill. On the walk, he took note of the fact that the…