Marietta v. Cliffs Ridge, Inc.

The prime issue in this negligence case is whether the plaintiff on a motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict produced enough evidence to go to the jury.

*369On December 31, 1964, plaintiff Neil Marietta, then a minor, was injured while skiing through a slalom course at defendant’s ski area. While turning through the last gate of the slalom course, plaintiff’s body struck a 1-1/2 inch thick maple sapling pole being used as a slalom gate marker. The pole flipped over, its top becoming imbedded in the snow, and plaintiff was impaled through his groin and abdominal region on the pole’s other…