Mead v. Salter

MILLER, Presiding Judge.

This case involves an ■ appeal from a $400,000 jury verdict in favor of plaintiff-appellee William Salter, who was injured when he fell down a stairwell located at the entrance of a downtown Indianapolis office building. He sued the owners and managers of the building, John Mead, William Mead, Franklin J. Mead III d/b/a Buttonwood Properties and Revel Companies, Inc. (collectively referred to as the “Owners”).

Owners appeal, raising the following issues:

I. Whether the trial court erred in denying Owners’ summary judgment motion that Salter was a licensee as a matter of…