Constantineau v. Dci Food Equipment, Inc

In this premises liability case, plaintiffs appeal from the trial court’s order denying their motion for a new trial or for judgment notwithstanding the verdict. They claim that the trial court erred in refusing to direct a verdict that plaintiff Thomas Constantineau was a business invitee, in charging the jury, and in failing to find that the verdict was against the great weight of the evidence. We affirm.

It was plaintiffs’ theory of the case that Thomas Constantineau, while at defendant’s place of business, slipped on a dangerously steep and narrow staircase and suffered severe injuries to…