Long v. Smith Food King Store

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that serving free samples of pie in a grocery store is not an inherently dangerous activity
• acknowledging “the admittedly correct rule requiring the defendant to exercise due care and prudence for the safety of its business invitees”
• finding summary judgment for defendant appropriate where pleadings and depositions demonstrated no negligence or omission of duty of care
• referring to this theory as a “variant” of the first theory
• summary judgment for defendant proper where pleadings and depositions showed no negligence or omission of duty of reasonable care
• essential element in method of operation claim is that condition created by defendant is of such character that defendant has or should have notice of inherently dangerous condition

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).