Strickland v. City of Raleigh

STROUD, Judge.

The trial court allowed summary judgment in favor of defendant, dismissing plaintiff’s claim for personal injury arising from a fall. Plaintiff appealed from the summary judgment order. For the following reasons, we affirm.

I. Background

On or about 25 January 2008, plaintiff filed a complaint against defendant alleging that

[o]n the afternoon of August 19, 2005, the Plaintiff was traveling on foot along Martin Street in the Fayetteville Street Mall area in Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina. As the Plaintiff was walking between two crosswalks at Port City Java and First Citizens…