Case Name: David HATFIELD, Appellant, v. UNIVERSAL SERVICES, INC., A Texas Corporation, Appellee
Court: Alaska Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Alaska
Decision Date: 1981-02-06
Citations: 622 P.2d 984
Docket Number: No. 4743
Parties: David HATFIELD, Appellant, v. UNIVERSAL SERVICES, INC., A Texas Corporation, Appellee.
Judges: Before RABINOWITZ, C. J., CONNOR, BURKE and MATTHEWS, JJ., and COOKE, Superior Court Judge.
Reporter: Pacific Reporter 2d
Volume: 622
Pages: 984–985

Head Matter:
David HATFIELD, Appellant, v. UNIVERSAL SERVICES, INC., A Texas Corporation, Appellee.
No. 4743.
Supreme Court of Alaska.
Feb. 6, 1981.
A. Lee Petersen, A. Lee Petersen, Inc., Anchorage, for appellant.
Clay A. Young, Delaney, Wiles, Moore, Hayes & Reitman, Inc., Anchorage, for ap-pellee.
Before RABINOWITZ, C. J., CONNOR, BURKE and MATTHEWS, JJ., and COOKE, Superior Court Judge.

Opinion:
OPINION
PER CURIAM.
This is a "slip and fall" tort case.
The court's instructions on appellee's duty of care were adequate.
We are unpersuaded by appellant's contention that in a case of this type the jury must be instructed as to how a reasonable person performs the activity of walking. Even if the requested instruction was a proper statement of the law, the failure to give it in this case was harmless, because the appellee was found not to have been negligent. See Alaska Rules of Civil Procedure 51(b), 61. Therefore, we must affirm the judgment.
AFFIRMED.
. The instruction requested by appellant was: "The plaintiff in the exercise of reasonable care was not required to look at the floor in front of him as he walked. He may safely assume that the premises were in reasonably safe condition in the absence of any notice to the contrary."