Lexington Market Authority v. Zappala

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• holding that there was insufficient evidence of constructive notice where the plaintiff testified she did not see any oil when she first parked the car and/or when she returned and fell two hours later
• JNOV was appropriate because there was no evidence that parking garage had notice of oil or grease from patron’s vehicle that caused plaintiff to slip and fall
• commercial business owner did not breach duty of care by failing to instantaneously detect and correct dangerous condition of oil or grease on parking garage floor which allegedly caused customer to fall
• commercial business owner did not breach duty of care by failing to instantaneously detect and correct dangerous condition of oil or grease on parking garage floor which allegedly caused customer to fall
• no liability for an oil or grease spot in a parking garage where there was no evidence the condition was caused by the garage or its employees or when the spill occurred
• the court reversed and remanded to enter judgment for the defendant, where the oil or grease that the plaintiff slipped on, may have leaked from a car nearby, moments before she fell

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).