Fine v. APAC-Georgia, Inc.

Banke, Presiding judge.

The appellants’ decedent was killed when an automobile in which he was a passenger hydroplaned on wet pavement, turned broadside into its lane of traffic, and was struck by a flatbed wrecker which had been following behind it. The appellants brought this wrongful-death action against the appellees herein — two highway contractors who had been performing work at the location in question — alleging that these contractors had breached a duty to the members of the traveling public “by negligently and recklessly engaging in acts and omissions such as allowing [a] pond of…