Corbett v. Association of Apartment Owners of Wailua Bayview Apartments

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

PADGETT, J.

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of the defendant/possessor of land pursuant to a jury verdict, in a slip-and-fall case.

Appellant Margaret Corbett allegedly injured herself when she stepped off of a paved sidewalk on appellee’s premises and fell. She claims that the cause of her fall was the four- or five-inch difference in height between the paved sidewalk and the adjoining lawn.

The appeal is based upon claimed error in the giving of defendant’s proposed jury instructions 38,40 and 41 over her objection.

Those three instructions read as follows:

DEFEN…