Corbin v. Safeway Stores, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that reasonable jurors could conclude that a slanted, self- service bin holding grapes over a floor with no protective mat posed an unreasonable risk of harm
• holding that plaintiff failed to show actual knowledge when the evidence did not show the condition had existed “a sufficient time to impute knowledge” to the defendant
• holding that plaintiff did not have to establish actual or constructive knowledge because defendant “‘admitted that at the time of [plaintiff's] fall it knew of [the] unusually high risk associated with its grape display”
• holding that a slip-and-fall plaintiff may recover by showing that the storeowner failed to use reasonable care to protect customers from conditions which were dangerous from the inception of their use, as opposed to becoming dangerous over time
• holding that a slip-and-fall plaintiff may recover by showing that the storeowner failed to use reasonable care to protect customers from conditions which were dangerous from the inception of their use, as opposed to becoming dangerous over time
• distinguishing negligent activity theory of liability of premises occupier from premises defect theory of liability

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).