Marlo Investments, Inc. v. Verne

WALDEN, Judge.

Plaintiffs, husband and wife, sue their landlord because of a fall suffered by the wife when she slipped upon some loose pebbles while traversing a common passageway leading from the plaintiffs’ apart*59ment. The jury returned a verdict for plaintiffs. Defendant, landlord, appeals from the resulting final judgment. We reverse.

The simple issue preserved and posed was the sufficiency of the evidence reflecting that the landlord knew or should have known of the existence of the pebbles which was the dangerous condition causing the wife to fall.

What is the evidence concerning these…