Legal Opinion
Berness v. Regency Square Associates
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided October 2, 1987No. 86-29PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Plaintiffs, Louise Berness and her husband Francis Berness, appeal from a summary judgment in favor of defendants in a suit charging the defendants with negligence, wantonness, and breach of contract in the maintenance of a shopping mall parking lot.
On March 15, 1985, at about 7:45 in the evening, Louise Berness was leaving her place of business, Big B Fashions, which is located in the Regency Square Mall in Florence. As she walked out of the entrance to the mall and toward her car, she fell on some loose concrete on the sidewalk. The sidewalk had been broken and cracked since 1979. The…
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