Bertrand v. Palm Springs & European Health Spa, Inc.

Plaintiff suffered injuries when she slipped and fell in the locker room of defendant’s health spa. A jury returned a verdict for plaintiff, and defendant appeals from the judgment entered on the verdict.

The defendant assigns as error the refusal of the trial court to grant a motion for a judgment of involuntary nonsuit and a motion for a directed verdict. We shall consider them together.

Prior to the accident in question, the plaintiff, a 42-year-old housewife, had received surgery for a slipped disc in her cervical spine. Following the surgery, a laminectomy, she was advised by her doctor to…