Oliveri v. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

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• landlord has alternative duty either to make the premises under his control reasonably safe or to warn of any dangers on those premises
• foreign object could only be described as “dirty, kind of muddy, two or three inches long, two inches wide, and one-half inch high”
• adherence of hard, dirty and unidentified substance to steps did not establish the time element
• landlord has duty to make premises under his control safe or warn of dangers
• no liability absent evidence sufficient to permit a jury to reasonably infer that the allegedly hazardous condition had existed “long enough so that in the exercise of reasonable care the defendant should have discovered and removed it”
• plaintiff must prove that foreign substance on floor causing her to slip and fall was there “long enough so that in the exercise of reasonable care the defendant should have discovered and removed it”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).