Trillet v. Vulcan Materials Co.

Birdsong, Presiding Judge.

This appeal arises from the grant of summary judgment to a proprietor in a “slip and fall” case. Robert C. Trillet contends that Vulcan Materials Company, the owner of a quarry, was not entitled to summary judgment because genuine issues of material fact remain for trial.

The record shows that at 7:00 a.m. on September 25, 1987, apparently before sunrise Trillet loaded his dump truck at Vulcan’s quarry, stopped his truck at the scale house, and stepped from his truck onto a concrete pad next to the scale house. Trillet took “three or four” steps to hand paperwork to…