This is а personal injury case. Plaintiffs appeal a jury verdict of no cause of action.
On September 6, 1966, plaintiff Gordon Hall, a self-employed repairman, was called to defendants’ building to pick up a cash register in need of repair. The building was owned by defendants Monarch and Desрins (formerly Squires). The premises in question were leased to defendants Arlie Wood and Edna Wood doing business as the Idle Hour Tavern. The plaintiff was told that thе cash register was in the backroom. After parking his truck in the rear of the tavern, he entered the backroom. After removing a chain across the doorway, and while in the process of removing the register, he fell through an open trapdoor, injuring himself.
The plaintiff and his wife, who claims for derivative losses, assert that the defendants breached their their duty to maintain the premises in a reasonably safe condition. Defendants deny any negligenсe and claim that plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence. Plaintiffs do not appeal the no cause of action verdict in favor of the defendant Monarch.
As invitors, defendants owe a duty to their invitees, including plaintiffs, to maintain the premises
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in a reasonably safe condition and to exеrcise due care to prevent the existence of conditions which the defendants knew or should have known might cause injuries.
Torma
v.
Montgomery Ward & Co.
(1953),
“One is under no obligation to keep his premises in safe condition for the visits of trespassеrs. On the other hand, when he expressly or by implication invites others to come upon his premises, whether for business or for any other purpose, it is his duty tо reasonably be sure that he is not inviting them into danger, and to that end he must exercise ordinary care and prudence to render the premises reasonably safe for the visit.”
Appellants claim that the court erred in its instructions to the jury. However, the court’s instructions to the jury when considered as a whole fairly and fully presented the law applicable to the issues and were generally sufficient.
Martiniano
v.
Booth
(1960),
Appellants further claim that the lower cоurt erred in refusing to instruct the jury that as a matter of law the defendants were negligent and also claim that the trial court erred in refusing a new trial on the grоund that the verdict was against the great weight of the evidence.
The crucial inquiries are: Did the record raise a question of fact as to whethеr or not defendants exercised proper precautions for plaintiff Gordon Hall when he entered the backroom so that the trial cоurt was correct in denying the request to instruct *139 the jury that the defendant was guilty of negligence as a matter of law? Did the record contain facts which wоuld support the jury’s no cause of action verdict for the defendants whether it be on the claims of negligence against the defendants or the сlaim of contributory negligence as a proximate cause, so that the trial court should not have granted a new trial to the plaintiffs?
The questiоn of negligence, whether it be the defendants’ or plaintiff’s, is considered one of law, for the court, only where the facts are such that all reаsonable men must draw from them the same conclusions.
Barnebee
v.
Spence Bros.
(1962),
“If evidence оn which reasonable men could differ was submitted, the question of liability is one of fact for jury determination.” Huhtala v. Anderson (1969),15 Mich App 693 , 696.
A fair reading of the testimony of several witnessеs shows a valid conflict in several important elements of this case, requiring determinations by a jury of both the alleged negligence of defendants аnd contributory negligence of the plaintiff: the warning, if any, to be perceived by plaintiff Gordon Hall because of the chain across the doоr; whether or not the plaintiff made careful observations while in the room; the amount of illumination in the room and its effect on visibility in the room; whether оr *140 not the open trapdoor would lie obvious to a person using ordinary care under the circumstances; the possibility that the plaintiff was wearing sunglasses when he entered the room; the availability of other lighting in the room if the plaintiff had wanted to use it; the fact that the plaintiff stepped without looking; all these — and more — were evidentiary elements in this case.
There was legally sufficient admissible evidence to support both the plаintiffs’ and the defendants’ theories. There were factual disputes, based upon this legally sufficient evidence. The resolution of these disputes was thе exclusive function of the jury. As pointed out by Honigman and Hawkins in their treatise, “Michigan Court Rules Annotated”, (2 ed) vol 3, p 113:
“On the other hand, it would be error for the trial judge to grant a new trial simply because he might draw different inferences from the evidence, resolve conflicting testimony in a different way, reach a different conclusion as to the credibility of witnesses, or prefer a different decision as between permissible alternatives.”
Plaintiffs further clаim error because the trial court at times used the word “any” in referring to contributory negligence. In reviewing this claim it must be remembered that instructions must be considered in their entirety.
Leach
v.
Fisher
(1956),
The plaintiffs’ claim takes the trial court’s use of the word “any” out of the context of the instructions given to the jury, and gives the word a meaning and use which a fair reading of the instructions does not merit. A review of the court’s instructions in their entirety shows that the court was not, when it used *141 the word “any”, speaking of degrees of negligence or suggesting that “slight negligence” would bar the plaintiffs’ recovery.
The court repeatedly made it clear that only plaintiff’s negligence which proximately caused his injury would bar the plaintiffs from recovery. The instructions were not speaking of degreеs of negligence. This is not the fact situation of
Mack
v.
Precast Industries, Inc.
(1963),
The plaintiffs’ interprеtation also ignores the supplemental instructions given by the judge in reply to the question asked by the jury foreman which clearly showed that the jury understood that the degree of negligence by either party made no difference.
“Mr. Foreman: Yes. And as I understand it now, Judge, the degree of the negligence on the part of either parties makes no difference?
“The Court: That is right; no degree is involved. It is just a case of whether in the plaintiffs’ case, whether or not he was guilty of any negligence, which proximately contributed to these injuries. You don’t determine the negligence of the party by degree. We don’t comрare them in Michigan.”
It might also be noted here that the plaintiffs never objected to the trial court’s use of the word “any” when the use was made, nor requested any clarifying remarks or instructions by the court in case any doubt really did exist.
The plaintiffs also complain that the trial court failed to give certain proffered instructions, and therefore committed error. The plaintiffs’ requested jury instructions 1, 3, and 4, were either ar *142 gumentative, incomplete, or incorrect in law or conclusions of law, where there was an issue of fact for the jury. The trial court properly refused to give them as presented by the plaintiffs.
Judgment affirmed. Costs to appellees.