Dumont v. Shaw's Supermarkets, Inc.

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• plaintiff asserted that defendant’s mode of operation, namely, its display of unpackaged, bulk candy, led to her accident
• party is entitled to jury instruction that is correct statement of law supported by facts, as long as instruction is not misleading and has not already been covered by charge
• plaintiff need not prove that store had notice of specific condition giving rise to plaintiffs injury as long as plaintiff can establish that store was aware of recurrence of hazardous condition on premises
• “A plaintiff does not have to prove that the store owner had actual notice of the specific condition giving rise to the injury if the plaintiff can establish that the store owner was aware of the risk of a recurrence of a hazardous condition of the premises.”
• chocolate-covered peanut from bulk, unwrapped candy bin

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).