Gallagher v. STOP & STOP, INC.

How courts have described this case

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• melted ice cream at exit door near work area of several employees and through which all customers and employees had to pass
• the evidence showed that “there were three cashiers close by who, when they turned around to get shopping bags, as they frequently did, had a clear view of the floor...”
• dirty, sloppy, messy ice cream, with heel marks, covering 12 inches of floor
• jury could infer that store owner had constructive knowledge of ice cream on floor where \[s]ome appreciable time must have elapsed ... for the ice cream to have gotten into the condition it was in\
• store proprietor negligent when his employees did not discover and remove melting ice cream from the store’s exit because the ice cream could not have been where it was, because of its melting condition, without having been in the cashiers’ view

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