Court Opinion

ID: 3371628
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-05 18:10:59.019108+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:46:49.665104
License: Public Domain

The complaint alleges that the Cutler Realty Company was the owner of record of the premises described and the other defendant, the Lerner Shops, was the lessee. The defendants say that no evidence of any kind has been offered to show who had control or possession of the premises where the plaintiff fell. I think this position is sound and it would follow that no judgment can be rendered against either defendant.
Quite aside from that, however, it is impossible to find that there existed any notice of the defective condition. No actual notice is claimed but constructive notice merely. The plaintiff finished work at 9 p.m. on the night of the injury and says she fell about 9:45. There were many hours of sunshine on the day of the injury. The day was cloudy. A light precipitation of snow began at 8:12 p.m. It is conceded that the store of the defendant The Lerner Shop closed that evening at 6 o'clock. It cannot be held that the defendants or either *Page 323 
of them had any notice of any defective condition of the area where the plaintiff fell.
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