Schmid v. Fairmont Hotel Company-Chicago

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• liability under rules of ordinary negligence requires some knowledge, actual or constructive, of danger complained of
• the creation of a legal duty requires more than a mere possibility of occurrence; if an event is highly extraordinary or unique, then the occurrence is not reasonably foreseeable

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