Circle K Convenience Stores, Inc. v. Ferguson

How courts have described this case

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• holding that condition was “so open and obvious, so common and so ordinarily innocuous” that it was not dangerous as a matter of law where plaintiff tripped over joint in gas station parking lot where concrete met asphalt
• finding that an uneven parking lot surface located at a convenience store does not constitute a hidden dangerous condition
• holding that condition was “so open and obvious, so common and so 8 ordinarily innocuous” that it was not dangerous as a matter of law where plaintiff tripped over joint in gas station parking lot where concrete met asphalt
• holding that condition was “so open and obvious, so common and so ordinarily innocuous” that it was not dangerous as a matter of law where plaintiff tripped over joint in gas station parking lot where concrete met asphalt
• finding that slightly raised, concrete cover of underground gas tank in asphalt parking lot was “so common and so ordinarily innocuous” that it was not a hidden dangerous condition
• affirming a directed verdict for a landowner because the uneven juncture between the cement and asphalt in a gas station parking lot was “so common and so ordinarily innocuous” that it was not a dangerous condition

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