Rodger v. McDonald's Restaurants of Ohio, Inc.

This is an appeal from a decision of the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas granting summary judgment against plaintiff-appellant, John M. Rodger, and in favor of defendants-appellees, McDonald’s Restaurants of Ohio, Inc. and Finklea, Inc.

In determining the validity of a decision of the trial court granting summary judgment, the nonmoving party is entitled to have all reasonable competing inferences and the evidence construed most strongly in his favor. The record reveals the following facts pertinent to disposition of the issues raised by this appeal.

On December 4, 1980, at approximately…