Strutz v. Vicere

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• distinguishing, for purposes of summary judgment, between contributory negligence barring a plaintiff’s recovery and lack of evidence of proximate cause
• finding summary judgment proper when the plaintiff’s statement that he fell down over the stairway railing did not explain the cause of the fall or create a genuine issue of material fact
• finding summary judgment proper when the plaintiff’s statement that he fell down over the stairway railing did not explain the cause of the fall or create a genuine issue of material fact
• “[l]iability cannot be predicated on conjecture; rather proximate cause is established when there is reasonable certainty that the defendant’s acts or omissions caused the injury”
• where “none of the testimony and affidavits addresse[d] the issue of what caused [the decedent’s] fall,” summary judgment was properly entered for the defendants
• “The possibility that the allegedly unreasonably dangerous staircase had caused [the decedent] to slip and fall is insufficient to establish the necessary causal relationship between [the -3- defendant’s] alleged negligence and [the decedent’s] injuries.”

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