Alterman Foods, Inc. v. Ligon

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Falling and injuring one’s self proves nothing. Such happenings are commonplace wherever humans go.”
• failure to inspect supermarket floor for period of one hour and forty-two minutes prior to fall gave rise to jury question on reasonableness of procedures
• cannot infer that the store floor was negligently maintained merely from a fall
• wherein the defendant-movant had “introduced evidence that the floor had been waxed [with a non-slip wax] two and one-half days prior to plaintiff’s fall and had been trafficked during that time by other customers”
• plaintiff did not know the cause of her fall

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).