Westchester Exxon v. Valdes

How courts have described this case

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• service station not liable to customer for burns caused by hot water from self-service customer's radiator
• where jury could not reasonably differ to the existence of material fact or inference, directed verdict should be granted
• “An owner or occupier of a place of business is not an insurer of his customers’ safety; rather, he owes his customers only a duty to protect against those risks which are reasonably foreseeable.”
• when a defendant’s conduct is measured against the standards of the landowner’s obligations and it is clear that she has not breached a duty owed to the invitee, a directed verdict is proper

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).