Allsup v. McVille, Inc.

EDMUNDS, Judge.

Plaintiff Michelle Parlet Allsup appeals from summary judgment entered in favor of defendant. We affirm.

On 28 December 1994, plaintiff escorted four Girl Scouts, ages eleven and twelve, to defendant’s McDonald’s restaurant in Kernersville. As plaintiff joined a line of patrons waiting to place a food order at the restaurant counter, she observed a low, unpainted, wooden structure positioned to her right and partially beneath the counter overhang. This structure was a platform or bridge that allowed young patrons to climb to a level where they could be seen and served by the…