Legal Opinion
McKillip v. Smitty's Super Valu, Inc.
Court of Appeals of Arizona
Decided June 24, 1997No. 1 CA-CV 96-0307PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
FIDEL, Presiding Judge.
When a business fails to take reasonable preventive measures to protect its customers from slippery objects on the floor, may the business shift a portion of the responsibility for a customer’s slip and fall to the person who dropped the object on the floor? We answer that question affirmatively in this appeal.
tl] Before doing so, we consider whether the appellants’ notice of appeal adequately invokes our jurisdiction to permit us to reach the merits. We answer that question affirmatively as well, concluding that the court must review notices of appeal liberally,…
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- Hanen v. WillisArizona Supreme Court · 1967
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