Steinhorst v. H. C. Prange Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the store’s method of displaying sample bottles of shaving soap at a cosmetics counter, knowledge that children played with the samples, and lack of any effort to inspect the floor, created the unsafe condition when plaintiff slipped on shaving soap
• applying Strack principle where department store patron slipped due to shaving foam on the floor at a self-serve men’s cosmetics counter
• shaving cream from tester cans on self-service cosmetic counter where children were spotted playing
• wet spot inside store entrance when melting snow and ice had accumulated in outside parking lot
• “In this age of super markets of every description with their self-serve counters, the increase in accidents, like increased thefts, have come to be looked upon as a hazard of doing a self-serve business.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).