Willard S. Peterson v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting argument that there is any “flat rule in Illinois that ten minutes is always too short a period for a duty of inspection and clean up to arise”
• finding a disputed issue of fact where the plaintiff offered testimony of the existence of a spill that contradicted the defendant’s testimony that its employees had not seen a spill, and concluding that the dispute raised an inference of the employees’ carelessness
• “the duty of inspection and clean up does not require continuous patrolling of the aisles”
• “Satisfaction of the ... duty of inspection and clean up[ ] does not require continuous patrolling of the aisles.”
• “Satisfaction of the . . . duty of inspection and clean up[ ] does not require continuous patrolling of the aisles.”
• lotion on floor for maximum of ten minutes created “a matter to be explored at trial”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).