Hannah Piotrowski v. Menard, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.
Hannah Piotrowski was injured after slipping on two small rocks in the parking lot of a Menard store. She filed this suit alleging that her injuries were due. to Me-nard’s negligence, contending that the rocks must have come from a planter that Menard maintained outside the store or from decorative rocks' that the store sold in bags of at. least forty pounds. We affirm the district court’s grant of summary, judgment in favor of the store because Pio-trowski’s belief that she fell as a result of the store’s negligence is only speculation, and speculation is not enough…
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