Phipps v. Aptucxet Post 5988 V.F.W. Building Ass'n

A jury awarded damages to the plaintiff for injuries received in a fall on ice in a parking lot controlled by the defendant. While attending a Saturday night dance sponsored by the defendant on January 16, 1971, the plaintiff walked from his car parked in the defendant’s lot to the rear door of the dance hall at about 10:00 p.m., his feet doing a "fast shuffle on the ice.” The plaintiff fell when his left foot slipped into an "indenture” in the ice, a groove three inches deep and from six to eight inches wide edged with icy "crustations,” and his ankle snapped. There was no error in denying…