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McKILLIP v. SMITTY'S SUPER VALU, INC.

No. 1 CA-CV 96-0307.

945 P.2d 372 (1997)

190 Ariz. 61

Betty E. McKILLIP and Gerald E. McKillip, wife and husband, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. SMITTY'S SUPER VALU, INC., a Delaware corporation, Defendant-Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Arizona, Division 1, Department C.

Review Denied October 21, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph E. Mahowald, P.A. by Ralph E. Mahowald, Scottsdale, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Jennings, Strouss & Salmon, P.L.C. by H. Christian Bode and James M. Ackerman, Phoenix, for Defendant-Appellee.

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.

Before doing so, we consider whether the appellants' notice of appeal adequately invokes our jurisdiction...

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