Hresil v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that “ten minutes was an insufficient period of time to give [Sears] constructive notice” of a foreign substance
• holding that it would be an “unfair requirement” to suggest that a store owner must constantly patrol its aisles
• holding store had no constructive notice of spill present for at least ten minutes when store was not busy and most employees were by store exits
• demanding a store to constantly patrol its aisles is an unfair requirement
• “as a matter of law, that ten minutes [is] an insufficient period of time to give constructive notice . . . of the presence of [a] foreign substance.”
• ten minutes insufficient establish constructive notice

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).