Otis Elevator Co. v. Chambliss

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• recognizing that many states have incorporated comparative negligence into res ipsa loquitur but declining to reach issue under Florida law
• reversing final judgment against escalator owner/servicer, where injured plaintiff/passenger totally failed to carry initial burden of presenting evidence to show that negligence was the proximate cause of the escalator’s sudden stop
• res ipsa inapplicable when customer failed to show that sudden stop of escalator would be \ordinarily\ caused by Otis's negligence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).