What is the duty owed to a customer in a shop during business hours?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from Lange v. Campbell Farm Equipment Ltd., 1979 CanLII 2188 (SK CA):
The customer in a shop during business hours is the most common example of the relationship of invitor and invitee and the duty owed to the invitee is to use reasonable care to prevent damage from unusual danger of which the invitor either knows or ought to know: Indermaur v. Dames (1866), L.R. 1 C.P. 274 at 288; Campbell v. Royal Bank of Can., 1963 CanLII 92 (SCC), [1964] S.C.R. 85, 46 W.W.R. 79, 43 D.L.R. (2d) 341.
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