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OTIS v. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF MINNEAPOLIS

Nos. 42924, 43052.

195 N.W.2d 432 (1972)

Beverly OTIS, Respondent-Appellant, v. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF MINNEAPOLIS, Appellant-Respondent.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

March 3, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richards, Montgomery, Cobb & Bassford, and Lynn G. Truesdell III, Minneapolis, for appellant-respondent.

Jerome E. Kline, Minneapolis, for respondent-appellant.

Considered by KNUTSON, C. J., and OTIS, PETERSON, TODD, and MASON, JJ.

OPINION

PER CURIAM.

Plaintiff slipped and fell on a small puddle of water, 3 to 5 inches in circumference, on defendant bank's floor near a teller's window. Except for this puddle and some adjacent small puddles, as well as some "damp footmarks," plaintiff could "walk just normal" on the "fine, dry floor." It had been raining hard, and the bank had been open only 20 minutes at the time plaintiff entered. The circumstances strongly suggest that the water...

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