This is an appeal from a summary judgment for the defendant in a slip-and-fall case governed by Tennessee law. The plaintiff's accident was caused by what the Tennessee courts sometimes refer to as "a transitory, temporary or unusual ... accumulation of foreign substances" — in this instance, dog food pellets that had been spilled on the floor of a self-service department store operated...
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