A Philadelphia grocer and a Delaware Valley bottler of Canada Dry products have avoided a federal slip-and-fall trial in a case where an injured shopper said the defendants had actual and constructive notice of the puddle of clear liquid in which she claims she slipped.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, in a nonprecedential opinion, declined to connect a Canada Dry pallet, spotted in the vicinity of where Marion Felix fell minutes before she fell, and the fall itself.