Garrett v. Hanes

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• affirming summary judgment in the defendant’s favor where the plaintiff presented no evidence that the step she tripped on was hazardous, meaning she “proved only that she fell, which is insufficient to establish liability”
• landowner was entitled to summary judgment because there was no evidence that step over which plaintiff tripped was hazardous
• “The true basis for an owner’s liability is [its] superior knowledge of the existence of a condition that could subject [its] invitees to an unreasonable risk of injury.”
• plaintiff failed to show that step on which she fell was hazardous; she offered no expert testimony that the step was negligently designed or constructed, nothing indicated that the step was difficult to discern, and no one had previously fallen on the step

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