Hunter v. Dixie Home Stores

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• holding that even though two employees were standing in proximity to where plaintiff fell, one ten to twelve feet away and the other 25 or 30 feet away, this alone was not enough evidence to establish the defendant had notice of the dangerous condition
• noting Kentucky case which held shopkeeper was not, as a general rule, bound to anticipate an independent act of negligence by a third party in placing such objects on the floor
• granting summary judgment to defendant where “[t]here is an absence of evidence showing how the beans got on the floor or how long they had been there”
• no constructive notice of presence of popcorn with evidence proving merely that popcorn had been there a very few minutes
• surveying cases involving beets, strawberries, popcorn, and other vegetable matter

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