Cooney v. McGee

Plaintiff filed this action to recover damages for injuries sustained when she fell while descending a ramp in defendant’s retail store. Plaintiff appeals from a judgment entered on a verdict for the defendant.

The sole question presented is whether the court erred in excluding expert testimony relating to whether the degree of the ramp’s slope rendered it unsafe.

Plaintiff’s complaint alleged, inter alia, that the plaintiff fell to the ground as a result of the defendant’s negligence “in maintaining a ramp sloping sharply downward from the entrance level of the premises to a display room.” The…