Burwell v. Easton Memorial Hospital

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• summary judgment was appropriate because there was no evidence that hospital had notice of lettuce leaf that caused plaintiff to slip and fall on stairs
• nurse’s statement that “ ‘[sjomeone should have cleaned it up’ ” did not permit reasonable inference that hospital had actual or constructive knowledge of salad on stairs before plaintiff fell
• nurse's statement that \some- one should have cleaned it up\ permitted no reasonable inference that hospital had actual or constructive knowledge of salad on stairs before plaintiff fell
• “[Keene v. Arlan’s Department Store, 35 Md. App. 250 (1977)] is clearly distinguishable from the case before us in that, unlike the cashier in Keene, the nurse said nothing to indicate that she had been aware of the salad on the stairs before appellant fell.”
• “Evidence that a foreign substance causing a fall on a staircase looked dirty or otherwise appeared to have been there for a long time, however, generally has been held not to support a finding that the substance was there long enough to be discovered and remedied by the storekeeper.”

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