Moulden v. Greenbelt Consumer Services, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• finding no evidence of constructive notice where the aisle was inspected 2.5 hours before the plaintiff fell
• declining to infer that a string bean had been on the floor for “more than a few moments” from its mashed and dry appearance
• affirming directed verdict where there was only evidence of the color and location of the bean, but no evidence as to how long the bean had been on the floor
• stating, “[t]he evidence is legally sufficient to warrant submission of a case to the jury if it rises above speculation or conjecture, and so affords the rational basis needed for a determination that the defendant was guilty of negligence which produced the accident.”
• no liability for green bean on the floor of store where the bean may have fallen from a grocery cart moments before the plaintiff fell
• “[I]t would be unreasonable to hold that [there is a] duty to conduct a continuous inspection tour of the store.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).