Backus v. Giant Eagle, Inc.

Joseph E. O’Neill,

Presiding Judge

On February 2,1993, the appellant parked his automobile in the parking lot in front of a Giant Eagle Grocery Store. He then traversed thirty to forty yards from his automobile to the entrance to the store. As he proceeded to walk toward the front door of the store, he tripped and fell and was injured. It was his contention that that his fall was caused by what appeared to be spider-web- shaped cracks in the blacktop at the point where the blacktop of the parking lot met the concrete ramp leading up to the sidewalk and into the grocery store. The depth of these…