Lane Drug Stores Inc. v. Story

(After stating the foregoing facts.) The evidence fails to show negligence on the part of the defendant. The rule of law as to the duty of the ocbupier of premises to an invitee applies to hidden defects and to those not discoverable by the invitee by the exercise of ordinary care. Coffer v. Bradshaw, 46 Ga. App. 143 (167 S. E. 119); Day v. Trion Co., 56 Ga. App. 1 (192 S. E. 88); Lebby v. Atlanta Realty Corp., 25 Ga. App. 369 (103 S. E. 433). Therefore, in order to show negligence in this case, the plaintiff must show that she could not have seen the stool-in the exercise of ordinary care.…