Dillard v. The Vanderbilt University

OPINION

KOCH, Judge.

This appeal concerns a woman who was injured when she tripped over a brightly painted concrete tire stop in a hospital parking garage. The woman and her husband filed a negligence action in the Circuit Court for Davidson County against the owner and operator of the parking garage. The trial court granted the defendants’ motion for summary judgment, and the plaintiffs have appealed. We affirm the summary judgment because the defendants did not have a duty to protect patrons from the tire stop.

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