When an automatic door closes on a customer, injuring her, res ipsa loquitur permits a jury to infer, based on common knowledge, that such doors ordinarily do not malfunction unless negligently maintained by the store owner; since plaintiffs were entitled to that inference to establish a prima facie case in their personal-injury suit against Shop Rite, the trial judge erred in dismissing this malpractice action against the attorney whose derelictions allegedly led to dismissal of that action.
October 17, 2005 at 12:00 AM
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