Jones Food Co., Inc. v. Shipman

How courts have described this case

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• holding that no duty was owed with regard to open and obvious dangers
• holding that “a ladder leaned against the facade of [a] restaurant at a 45° angle to the ground,” was an open and obvious danger under the circumstances
• ‘Whether the defendant in a negligence action owed the claimant a duty is strictly a question of law.”
• “[T]he question is whether the danger should have been observed, not whether in fact it was consciously appreciated”
• landowner has no duty to warn of open and obvious hazards, even if invitee failed to perceive the risk of the condition
• “The duty owed by the invitor to an invitee is to exercise ordinary and reasonable care to keep the premises in a reasonably safe condition.” (citing Winn-Dixie v. Godwin, 349 So. 2d 37 (Ala. 1977))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).