McDonald's Restaurants of Georgia, Inc. v. Banks

McMurray, Presiding Judge.

Margaret Banks brought an action against McDonald’s Restaurants of Georgia, Inc. (“McDonald’s”) for injuries she allegedly sustained when she slipped and fell in a pool of rainwater that had accumulated at the bottom of a floor-slope inside a McDonald’s restaurant. McDonald’s denied the material allegations of the com*668plaint and filed a motion for summary judgment.

Banks testified (in her deposition) that the area where she fell was not just wet from rain that had been tracked into the restaurant. She explained that the hazard was a “standing” pool of water (four feet…