Legal Opinion
Maxine L. Derby v. Godfather's Pizza, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided January 25, 1995No. 94-1435PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Per curiam
Maxine Derby appeals the district court’s 1 refusal to give several proposed jury instructions and the exclusion of an architect’s expert witness testimony in this diversity slip- and-fall case. We affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
On May 16, 1991, Derby went to the Godfather’s Pizza Restaurant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, with her family to celebrate her daughter’s birthday. At this time, Derby was sixty-eight years old.
Godfather’s is a self-service restaurant that features an all-you-can-eat buffet for its noon lunch crowd. The buffet area is set apart from the two dining areas of the restaurant by one…
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