Burns v. Frontier II Properties Ltd. Partnership

KATHIANNE KNAUP CRANE, Judge.

Plaintiff appeals from the judgment entered on a jury verdict in favor of defendant building owner in a slip and fall case. Plaintiff contends that the trial court erred in directing a verdict in defendant’s favor at the close of plaintiffs case on his claim that loose yellow caution tape caused his fall and in submitting an improper verdict director on his negligence per se claim. We affirm.

Plaintiff, Ralph Arnold Burns, Jr., 1 and his wife, Olivia Catherine Busken Burns, filed a lawsuit against a commercial building owner, now known as Frontier II Properties…