Shaw v. McDonald's Restaurants of Georgia, Inc.

Sognier, Judge.

Doris Faye Shaw brought suit against McDonald’s Restaurants of Georgia, Inc. (McDonald’s) seeking damages for injuries she sustained when she slipped and fell as she was entering a restaurant operated by McDonald’s in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. The jury returned a verdict in favor of McDonald’s, and Shaw appeals from the judgment entered thereon.

The record reveals that on October 9,1985, at approximately 5:00 p.m. appellant parked her car in appellee’s parking lot and walked through a canopied area normally used as a drive-through for automobiles to approach the front door of…