Schatz v. 7-Eleven, Inc.

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• finding that, where defendant premises-owner permitted cars to park perpendicularly to curb in front of open and unobstructed entrance but failed to erect higher curb in front of entrance and plaintiff was hit by car while in the entrance, defendant did not breach duty
• affirming summaiy judgment for 7-Eleven, holding that automobiles losing control is unforeseeable
• summary judgment appropriate despite engineers' affidavits that standard curbs in the area of store owner's business were a minimum of six inches and that reasonable safe construction would require a curb of eight inches, since injury to patron was not foreseeable
• summary judgment appropriate despite engineers' affidavits that standard curbs in the area of store owner's business were a minimum of six inches and that reasonable safe construction would require a curb of eight inches, since injury to patron was not foreseeable
• “If as a matter of law such occurrences are held to be foreseeable and therefore to be guarded against, there would be no limitation on the duty owed by the owners of establishments into which people are invited to enter.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).