Legal Opinion
Timothy A. Randall v. K-Mart Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided July 24, 1998No. 1574, Docket 97-9043PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JACOBS, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiff-appellee Timothy Randall (“Randall”) suffered personal injury when he slipped on birdseed spilled in an aisle of a Kmart store, and was awarded $275,000 by a jury in the United States District Court for the District of Vermont (Gagliardi, J. ** ). Defendant-appellant Kmart Corporation moved for judgment as a matter of law on the ground that Randall failed to prove that Kmart had actual or constructive knowledge of the dangerous condition created by the spill. The district court denied the motion, and Kmart appeals. We reverse.
Background
Randall and his wife…
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- Wollerman v. Grand Union Stores, Inc.Supreme Court of New Jersey · 1966
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- Forcier v. Grand Union Stores, Inc.Supreme Court of Vermont · 1970
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