Madeline brought her Siamese kitten, Mia, to Animal Hospital for its vaccinations. Madeline paid her bill, and then asked the receptionist if she could have some of the old magazines that were often in the reception room for her son who liked to make scrapbooks of pictures he found interesting. The receptionist, who was quite busy with telephone calls, pointed to a door at the rear of the hospital and said, “There are some in the back room. Go ahead and look in there.”
When Madeline entered the storage room, it was dark. While searching for the light switch, Madeline tripped in a large indentation in the floor and fell to the concrete, fracturing a vertebra. The receptionist for Animal Hospital testified that she did not warn Madeline about the indentation in the floor, that their habit was to leave the lights on in the storage room at all times, and that the light in the room had been on when she had been in it half an hour before Madeline’s appointment.
In Madeline’s action for damages against Animal Hospital arising from this incident, Madeline will probably:
