Hamilton v. Kentucky Fried Chicken of Valdosta, Inc.

Miller, Judge.

Walking in the pitch dark of a restaurant’s unlit parking lot and distracted by cars using the drive-through lane that she was crossing, Nyla Hamilton tripped and fell on a raised curb that she had earlier traversed in the daylight. The restaurant’s approaches were configured so that patrons parking on the drive-through side of the restaurant would walk across the drive-through lane. She sued the restaurant owner (Kentucky Fried Chicken of Valdosta, Inc.) for personal injury damages. The owner successfully moved for summary judgment on the ground that Hamilton, having an hour…