Valentine v. Acme Markets, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• it is well established that it cannot be proven that a person committed an act by showing that the person committed similar acts in the past; there must be some connection or relation between the prior and present acts
• trial court erred by allowing evidence of plaintiff’s two prior falls since “[tjhere is also no testimony that [plaintiff] suffered injuries in his two prior falls that are similar to the injuries he suffered in this fall.”
• trial court erred by allowing evidence of plaintiff’s two prior falls since “[tjhere is also no testimony that [plaintiff] suffered injuries in his two prior falls that are similar to the injuries he suffered in this fall.”
• trial court erred by allowing evidence of plaintiff’s two prior falls since “[tjhere is also no testimony that [plaintiff] suffered injuries in his two prior falls that are similar to the injuries he suffered in this fall.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).