Brown v. Parrocks Associates

Elaintiff alleges that at approximately 1:15 a.m., while working at defendant’s building as a security guard for a nonparty security company, she slipped and fell on cooking oil that had leaked from a bag sitting on the stairs between the fifth and sixth floor. A nonparty tenant testified that she saw plaintiff shortly after the incident and also observed an oily bag. The security guard who worked the previous shift testified that at about 4:15 p.m. (nine hours earlier), he had observed an oil-filled bag at that same location. He stated that he threw the bag away *625and cleaned the area with a…