Biscuit World settles suit over alleged fall in Winfield restaurant

WINFIELD - A lawsuit filed against Tudor's Biscuit World after a customer allegedly fell has been settled and dismissed from Putnam Circuit Court.

Better Foods Inc. is doing business as Tudor's Biscuit World.

Gino’s Distributing Inc. was also named as a defendant in the suit.

On Oct. 22, a dismissal order was filed in Putnam Circuit Court, in which both parties represented to the court that all controversy between them had been settled and compromised and moved the court to dismiss the matter with prejudice.

On March 19, 2010, Betty Jean Teel was at the defendants’ Winfield location and was entering the restaurant via the ramp and entryway when she fell, according to a complaint filed March 7, 2011, in Putnam Circuit Court.

Teel claimed the defendants negligently designed, constructed and maintained a ramp and entryway to the restaurant that posed a danger and hazard to customers as it did not comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

The defendant’s negligence caused Teel to sustain serious and permanent injury to her left eye, damage to her iris and significant loss of vision, causing her to be legally blind, according to the suit.

Teel was seeking compensatory damages with pre- and post-judgment interest. She was being represented by Richard E. Holtzapfel of Holtzapfel Law Offices PLLC.

The defendants were represented by Benjamin T. Hughes of Pullin, Fowler, Flanagan, Brown & Poe PLLC.

The case was assigned to Circuit Judge Joseph K. Reeder.

Putnam Circuit Court case number: 12-C-71