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091965P.pdf   08/02/2010  William Pippin  v.  Hill-Rom Company, Inc.
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  09-1965
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Smith, Circuit Judge, and
   Kornmann, District Judge]
   Civil case - torts. Defendant's failure to perform under a contract
   governing transportation of its items cannot support plaintiff's negligence
   action for injuries incurred in loading the items; plaintiff chose to load his
   truck even though the risks were evident, and defendant did not have any
   duty to warn him of that which he should have been known; defendant
   was not liable under a premises liability theory as the slope of the lot was
   open and obvious as a matter of law.