Case Name: Frances M. SPENCE, Appellant, v. PEN AIR FEDERAL CREDIT UNION and Cumis Insurance Society, Inc., Appellees
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1982-10-08
Citations: 421 So. 2d 20
Docket Number: No. AJ-424
Parties: Frances M. SPENCE, Appellant, v. PEN AIR FEDERAL CREDIT UNION and Cumis Insurance Society, Inc., Appellees.
Judges: McCORD, BOOTH and WENTWORTH, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 421
Pages: 20–21

Head Matter:
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.

Opinion:
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.