While setting up a booth for the 1997 Fort Ligonier Days Celebration, the Plaintiff tripped and fell on a stump between hedges on her way into a parking lot. The defense offered evidence that the Plaintiff chose to use a short cut to the parking lot instead of an available paved lot entrance and sidewalk only several feet away. She fell and fractured both of her elbows and claimed an aggravation of a pre-existing mental health condition. The jury awarded only $506 for the Plaintiff.

Tried
February 2003