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· 2/9/2007

Jack in the Box, Inc. v. Skiles

Citations

  • 221 S.W.3d 566
  • 50 Tex. Sup. Ct. J. 414
  • 2007 Tex. LEXIS 126
  • 2007 WL 431045

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that a fast-food employer had no duty to warn an employee that it was obviously dangerous to use a ladder to climb over a lift gate
  • reasoning that dangers associated with using ladder to climb over lift gate were obvious
  • “The dangers associated with the use of a ladder to climb over a lift gate are common and obvious to anyone....”
  • employer did not have duty to warn employee about obvious danger in using ladder to climb over delivery truck’s malfunctioning lift gate
  • dangers associated with the use of a ladder to climb over a lift gate are common and obvious
  • danger associated with using a ladder to climb over a lift gate was determined to be common and obvious

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Judges: Per Curiam

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