093125P.pdf   08/09/2010  Betty Vargo-Schaper  v.  Weyerhaeuser Company
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  09-3125
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - Minneapolis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Bye, Author, with Melloy and Shepherd, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - torts. While defendant owed plaintiff's decedent a duty of
   care to prevent latent loading defects, it did not have a duty to prevent or
   correct any open or obvious loading defect in the tractor trailer; here, the
   district court did not err in concluding there was no latent defect due to
   crowning of the bundles because any defect would have been visible on
   inspection; district court did not err in rejecting plaintiff's argument to
   invoke the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur because the record showed the
   load was not under defendant's exclusive control and there were other
   possible causes for the accident which were not reasonably excluded by
   the evidence.