Kleinert v. Kimball Elevator Co.

OPINION

BENCH, Judge.

Deanna Kleinert appeals from the trial court’s grant of the Boyer Company’s motion for a directed verdict. We reverse and remand.

BACKGROUND

In reviewing a grant of a directed verdict, we view all facts and the inferences drawn therefrom in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party. See, e.g., Management Comm. of Graystone Pines Homeowners Ass’n v. Graystone Pines, Inc., 652 P.2d 896, 898 (Utah 1982); Anderson v. Gribble, 30 Utah 2d 68, 71, 513 P.2d 432, 434 (1973). We recite the facts accordingly.

In April 1984, Kleinert entered an elevator on the sixth floor of a…