Armenise v. Adventist Health System/Sunbelt, Inc.

Andrews, Judge.

Armenise fell and fractured his leg when he stepped in an ankle-deep depression in the ground which was hidden from view by thick grass. The fall occurred while Armenise was an invitee walking across a grassy area between a parking lot in front of Adventist Health System/Sunbelt, Inc. d/b/a Smyrna Hospital (the hospital) to an adjacent medical complex owned by M. P. Equities. The hospital owned the half of the grassy area bordering on the parking lot, and M. P. Equities owned the half closer to the medical complex. Although the depression in which Armenise stepped was located…