Skipper v. Barnes Supermarket

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• noting that “[a] possessor of premises to which the public is invited has a legal duty to ascertain that the premises are reasonably safe for invitees”
• finding that defendant store had constructive notice because the “broken and spread-about condition” of spilled food suggested it had been on the floor for sufficient time that defendant should have known of the dangerous condition
• reversing summary judgment for defendant where the plaintiff and witnesses testified to spaghetti spread out through an aisle which looked like it had been stepped on and the record suggested the area was not inspected for at least twenty minutes
• indicia of constructive notice includes evidence of cart tracks and footprints
• “Indicia of constructive notice in the context of debris on the floor which subsequently causes a slip and fall injury includes evidence of thawing (when the debris involves frozen materials), cart tracks, footprints, crushing, and so forth.”
• indicia of constructive notice includes evidence of cart tracks and footprints

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).