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      "GRACE WYRICK v. K-MART APPAREL FASHIONS CORP."
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        "text": "LEWIS, Judge.\nPlaintiff was an invitee at K-Mart. She went to the store\u2019s garden shop to purchase a plant and some potting soil. As she started walking toward a display, she saw \u201cthis garden hose where they water down . . . the flowers, and I started over it, which I thought I could have made it.\u201d Plaintiff caught her foot in the garden hose and fell. She testified that instead of walking across the garden hose, she could have gone \u201call the way back around and went the long way\u201d to reach her destination.\nSummary judgment is appropriate \u201cif the pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, and admissions on file, together with the affidavits, if any, show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that any party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.\u201d G.S. 1A-1, Rule 56(c). Even in a negligence action, summary judgment is proper if the forecast of evidence fails to show defendant\u2019s negligence, establishes plaintiff\u2019s contributory negligence or shows defendant\u2019s alleged negligence was not the proximate cause of plaintiff\u2019s injury. Hale v. Power Co., 40 N.C. App. 202, 252 S.E. 2d 265, cert. denied, 297 N.C. 452, 256 S.E. 2d 805 (1979). In affirming summary judgment for the defendant in Jacobs v. Hill\u2019s Food Stores, Inc., 88 N.C. App. 730, 364 S.E. 2d 692 (1988), this Court stated:\nThis evidence shows that the concrete block was an obvious condition and that plaintiff either knew or should have known of the location of the concrete block on the walkway. Defendant had no duty to warn plaintiff of an obvious condition. Thus, plaintiff\u2019s own evidence establishes that defendant did not breach any duty owed to plaintiff. Moreover, plaintiff\u2019s own testimony demonstrates her own negligence in failing to watch where she was walking.\nId. at 733, 364 S.E. 2d at 694. When an invitee sees an obstacle not hidden or concealed and proceeds with full knowledge and awareness, there can be no recovery. Stansfield v. Mahowsky, 46 N.C. App. 829, 266 S.E. 2d 28, disc. rev. denied, 301 N.C. 96, 273 S.E. 2d 442 (1980).\nSummary judgment was properly entered.\nAffirmed.\nJudges Arnold and Greene concur.",
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      "Franklin Smith for plaintiff-appellant.",
      "Finger, Watson, di Santi & McGee, by Anthony S. di Santi, for defendant-appellee."
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    "head_matter": "GRACE WYRICK v. K-MART APPAREL FASHIONS CORP.\nNo. 8823SC971\n(Filed 18 April 1989)\nNegligence \u00a7 58\u2014 fall over water hose in store \u2014contributory negligence\nSummary judgment was properly entered for defendant in plaintiff\u2019s action to recover for injuries sustained when she caught her foot on a water hose lying across the aisle in the garden shop of defendant\u2019s store and fell to the cement floor where plaintiff presented evidence that she saw the hose and attempted to step over it and that she could have gone around the area where the hose was located to reach her destination.\nAPPEAL by plaintiff from Rousseau (Julius A., JrJ, Judge. Order entered 20 June 1988 in Superior Court, YADKIN County. Heard in the Court of Appeals 23 March 1989.\nPlaintiff seeks to recover for injuries sustained when she caught her foot on a water hose lying across the aisle in the garden shop in defendant\u2019s store and fell to the cement floor. The trial court granted summary judgment for defendant. Plaintiff appeals.\nFranklin Smith for plaintiff-appellant.\nFinger, Watson, di Santi & McGee, by Anthony S. di Santi, for defendant-appellee."
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