Edwards v. Ingles Market, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• indicating that a puddle of rainwater may be a hazardous condition despite a plaintiff’s general knowledge that the floor might be wet
• reversing grant of summary judgment where “defendant but not plaintiff knew that the puddle in which plaintiff slipped had formed prior to plaintiff’s fall”
• reversing grant of summary judgment where “defendant hut not plaintiff knew that the puddle in which plaintiff slipped had formed prior to plaintiff’s fall”
• finding actual knowledge where another customer testified that “she informed Ingles’ manager about the puddle on the floor approximately 15 minutes prior to [plaintiff’s] fall” (emphasis added)
• testimony that “[plaintiff] was not looking directly at the floor at the time she fell because she was looking at the shopping carts does not alone show she was not exercising ordinary care” (alteration omitted)
• store had actual knowledge of puddle 12 inches in diameter

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).