Jim Rosica
A Tallahassee woman has dropped her lawsuit against a local Mexican restaurant after she fell off its donkey statue and broke her back.
Leon County court dockets show Kimberly Bonn, who was being represented by the Morgan & Morgan personal injury law firm, had voluntarily dismissed her complaint on Tuesday.
No reason was given for the dismissal, first reported by the Tallahassee Democrat.
The suit itself, first reported by FloridaPolitics.com last month, alleged that Bonn was having dinner at El Jalisco Southwood restaurant in 2015 when she got up on a “life-size statue of a donkey,” slipped off, and fell “hard to the floor,” which gave her a “fractured spine.”
The inanimate beast of burden has since become a cause célèbre. It has its own Facebook page, “For the Donkey,” a turn on Morgan & Morgan’s “For the People” catchphrase.
In her complaint, Bonn had said customers were encouraged to have their photos taken on the donkey.
But El Jalisco’s attorneys, in an earlier court filing, said Bonn “assumed the risk of any resulting injuries” when she got up on the donkey, which “she knew or should have known involved a risk of harm.”
