Dolquist

Plaintiff, Bulah Dolquist, appeals from summary judgment in favor of defendant City of Bellflower and against plaintiff in a personal injury action.

I

Factual and Procedural Background

A. Nature of Action

This action arose as a result of personal injuries allegedly sustained in a fall by plaintiff (hereinafter referred to as appellant), when her shoe heel caught on a piece of rebar (reinforcing steel) protruding from the top of a concrete tire stop located on property owned by defendant (hereinafter referred to as respondent).

The alleged accident occurred on April 11, 1984, and on December 17, 1984, appellant filed her complaint in the Los Angeles Superior Court for personal injuries she claims to have sustained in the fall. The complaint alleges among other things that appellant’s injuries were proximately caused by respondent’s negligence in the ownership, construction, management, maintenance and operation of a dangerous condition on public property.

B. Grant of Summary Judgment

After filing its answer to appellant’s complaint in which respondent asserted as one of its affirmative defenses that appellant’s purported injuries were the result of a “trivial…