Kroger Co. v. Elwood

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that breach of duty must be established to recover for negligence
• stating that employer “owes 25 no duty to warn of hazards that are commonly known or already appreciated by the employee”
• “To establish negligence, a party must establish . . . damages proximately caused by the breach.”
• “To establish negligence, a party must establish a duty, a breach of that duty, and damages proximately caused by the breach.”
• grocery store employer had no duty to warn courtesy clerk of danger associated with placing hand in doorjamb of automobile because that danger is common and obvious to anyone

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).