Welch v. Angelo's Supermarket, Inc.

Assuming, perhaps too favorably to the plaintiff, that the materials submitted in support of and in opposition to the defendant’s summary judgment motion furnished a basis for finding that the plaintiff’s fall was caused by stepping on the green, wet-appearing item of vegetable matter in the aisle between the supermarket produce counters, we nevertheless conclude that the judge correctly ordered summary judgment to enter for the defendant. Nothing in the record, in our view, would fairly support an inference that the vegetable matter had lain on the floor sufficiently long that the…