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Frances M. SPENCE, Appellant, v. PEN AIR FEDERAL CREDIT UNION and Cumis Insurance Society, Inc., Appellees.
    No. AJ-424.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
    Oct. 8, 1982.
    Rehearing Denied Nov. 15, 1982.
    
      Thomas C. Staples, of Mann, Lang & Staples, Pensacola, for appellant.
    W.H.F. Wiltshire, of Harrell, Wiltshire, Stone & Swearingen, Pensacola, for appel-lees.
   PER CURIAM.

The plaintiff, Frances M. Spence, appeals from the trial court’s final summary judgment in this “trip and fall” negligence action. ' We find that there are disputed issues of material fact or disputed inferences to be derived from those facts as to whether the alleged dangerous condition, a step-up, was a latent or patent condition and whether there was a legally sufficient distraction to justify Spence’s inattention to a known danger. Accordingly, the cause was not ripe for a summary judgment and must be reversed for a trial on the merits, Fla.R. Civ.P. 1.510(c).

Reversed and remanded for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.

McCORD, BOOTH and WENTWORTH, JJ., concur.