Parties settle Brno café fall claim for CZK 1,000 without admission of liability
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The agreement resolves claims arising from the fall only. The dispute concerned whether a warning sign adequately covered the wet route to the café counter.
The settlement agreement
Lenka Vítková and Ondřej Bartoš settled a claim arising from a fall at Bartoš’s café in Brno for CZK 1,000, against Vítková’s request for CZK 1,500. The agreement resolves claims arising from this fall only and includes no admission of liability.
The dispute, which the record identifies with the Civil court in Brno, concerned whether a warning adequately covered the wet route to the counter where Vítková said she slipped. The recorded outcome is a settlement, not a judicial determination of the warning’s adequacy or responsibility for the fall.
The agreed terms
The final terms provide for a CZK 1,000 payment and full settlement of claims arising from this particular fall. Payment is to be made promptly by transfer and documented.
The settlement amount is CZK 500 below the sum Vítková sought for the consequences of the fall, including a scraped knee and minor treatment expenses. The record does not divide the agreed payment between those items or specify a payment deadline.
The no-admission term means the agreement does not record an acceptance of liability. The supplied record also does not confirm that the transfer has been completed.
The parties' positions
Vítková maintained that she slipped on the wet entrance-to-counter route without seeing a warning. She disputed whether a photograph of a warning sign taken after the fall established that a warning had been present before she slipped.
She continued to seek CZK 1,500 for the fall and minor treatment expenses. She described the knee scrape as minor and healed, and said she had not considered a doctor’s visit necessary.
The record supplies no separate account of Bartoš’s submissions on the sign’s placement or timing. His recorded settlement position is reflected in the agreed terms, including the provision that liability is not admitted.
The background
Vítková took a phone photograph shortly after the fall showing a shiny patch on the route from the entrance to the counter. That image formed part of the factual basis for her account, but it did not show the whole room.
A warning sign was also photographed after the fall. The central evidentiary dispute was whether an after-fall photograph could establish that the sign had warned Vítková before the incident. No judicial finding on that question is recorded.
There was no mobile footage and no medical report available, including a report supporting the claimed treatment expenses. The settlement does not state how these evidentiary limits affected the agreed amount.
The agreement closes the claims arising from this fall on the recorded payment terms. Its scope is limited to that incident, and it leaves the underlying question of liability undecided.