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Court of Appeals Rejects Plaintiff’s Premises Liability Claim and Explains Difference Between “Speculation and Conjecture” and “Reasonable Inference” in Proving Negligence

on February 16, 2013May 12, 2020 By Carson J Tucker, JD MSEL

In this otherwise unremarkable "slip and fall" case, the Court of Appeals neatly illustrates the insufficiency of speculation and conjecture about the cause of an alleged injury suffered by the plaintiff in the defendant's store. In Fedrick v. KMart Corp. et al., Unpublished Opinion of the Michigan Court of Appeals, released February 14, 2013 (COA Docket No. [...]