Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. v. Turner
Court of Appeals of Georgia
1Opinion of the Court
Deen, Presiding Judge.
On September 6, 1986, as she was exiting the A&P Food Store in Columbus, Georgia, the appellee, Marie Turner, tripped over the metal threshold to the automatic door and fell. She suffered injuries to her left knee and ankle which ultimately required surgical procedures to remove inflamed tissue.
Although Turner admitted that she was a frequent patron of the store, she claimed that she had never noticed the metal threshold because it was obscured by the door. On the day she fell, she had proceeded to walk through the doorway without looking down, as she normally did, when…
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