Hartung v. Maple Investment & Development Corp.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that an \actionable `stumbling' point seems to be where the defect approaches two inches\
• applying the de minimis rule to three-quarter-inch sidewalk defect near a shopping center as it did not create a reasonably foreseeable risk of harm, noting the burden on the shopping center and the extreme Illinois weather conditions
• “an owner or occupier of land is not an absolute insurer of the safety of an invitee”
• \an owner or occupier of land is not an absolute insurer of the safety of an invitee\
• “[t]he de minimis rule *** is rooted in the scope of municipalities’ duty to maintain their property in a reasonably safe condition”
• a landowner’s duty is “to avoid creating an unreasonable risk of harm to an invitee” (emphasis in original)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).