Legal Opinion
Potvin v. Speedway LLC
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided June 4, 2018No. 17-1993PPublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
This appeal arises out of a lawsuit brought by a customer, plaintiff-appellant Eileen Potvin, against the proprietor of a self-service gas station in Tewksbury, Massachusetts (the Station). The facts are straightforward (and largely undisputed).
On the afternoon of January 20, 2012, the plaintiff, accompanied by her boyfriend, drove her car into the Station, which was then owned and operated by Hess Corporation (Hess). She stopped alongside a gas pump, with the driver's *413 side adjacent to the pump. While her boyfriend went inside to pay for the gasoline, the plaintiff…
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