Kaplan v. Lennecker

These several appeals were taken from judgments entered in an automobile accident case. The action was filed by Eileen Lennecker for damages for personal injuries received when she was struck by an automobile in the parking lot of a restaurant to which she had driven, parked her car in the restaurant’s parking lot, and was proceeding to enter the restaurant, walking in an aisle between rows of parked cars in the parking lot.

The place where the plaintiff was injured was an area of the restaurant’s parking lot which was used for valet parking. That area was not roped off or otherwise so marked…