Stephens v. Ernie's Steakhouse of Stone Mountain, Inc.

Birdsong, Presiding Judge.

Pamela Stephens appeals the grant of summary judgments to Ernie’s Steakhouse of Stone Mountain, Inc. and Sigma Development, Inc. in this slip and fall case. Ernie’s Steakhouse is the tenant in a shopping center owned by a limited partnership which is predominantly owned by appellee Sigma Development. In September 1992, appellant Stephens fell on a rain-wetted handicap access ramp after leaving Ernie’s Steakhouse. Prior to dining in the restaurant, she waited about 40 minutes outside the restaurant in reasonable proximity to the handicap ramp. It rained while she…