Johnson v. Evanski

Matson, Justice.

Appeal from an order denying defendants’ alternative motion for judgment or a new trial.

Defendants own and operate a small grocery store in a residential section of Minneapolis. 2 In front of the customers’ entrance door is a platform, 23 inches deep by 7 feet wide, located 31 inches above the ground level. This entrance platform is connected with the sidewalk below by a series of four steps of the same width as the platform. The bottom step is a concrete slab 11% inches deep and 3% inches high. The upper three steps are 11% inches deep with risers varying in height from 7% to…