Ruoff v. Harbor Creek Community Assn.

Opinion

SONENSHINE, J.

Martha Ruoff and Russell Ruoff, individually and as Martha’s conservator, challenge summary judgments entered in favor of various defendants 1 in a suit arising out of Martha’s slip and fall on a stairway in the common area of the 152-unit Harbor Creek complex. Martha sustained catastrophic injuries. According to appellants, whose statement is uncontradicted by respondents, on August 9, 1988, Martha fell backwards, landing at the bottom of the stairs, her foot wedged in a gap between the side of the building and the edge of the stairs. Comatose and bleeding, she was taken…