Favour v. Food Lion, Inc.

Beasley, Judge.

Plaintiff appeals the grant of summary judgment to defendants, the owner of the premises on which she slipped and fell and the operator of the owner’s immediately adjacent grocery store. The question is whether the undisputed evidence shows as a matter of law that the defendants did not breach the duty imposed by OCGA § 51-3-1. It requires them to “exercise ordinary care in keeping the premises and approaches safe.”

Plaintiff fell on ice as she was getting into the family van which her husband had pulled up to the front of the store. He had parked it so that the area which had…