Legal Opinion
Patterson v. Kevon, LLC
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided August 20, 2018No. S17G1957PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Boggs, Justice.
**232We granted this petition for certiorari to consider whether summary judgment for the defendant was properly granted in this food poisoning case. In Patterson v. Kevon, LLC, 342 Ga. App. 256, 802 S.E.2d 442 (2017), a sharply divided Court of Appeals affirmed the trial court's grant of summary judgment to the defendant caterer on the issue of proximate cause.1 For the reasons stated below, we find that the standard that has developed over the years in the Court of Appeals has conflated cases at both the trial and summary judgment **233stages, thus creating the mistaken…
2Cases cited19 opinions
- Lau's Corp., Inc. v. HaskinsSupreme Court of Georgia · 1991
- Cowart v. WidenerSupreme Court of Georgia · 2010
- Cowart v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2013
- Castleberry's Food Co. v. SmithCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1992
- Haley v. Regions BankSupreme Court of Georgia · 2003
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3Cited by31 opinions
- Jon Wiley Cronic v. Jeffrey H. DuvallCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2018
- Callaway v. Quinn.Court of Appeals of Georgia · 2018
- Brown v. DickersonCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2019
- PARKE TOWNE NORTH APARTMENTS, LLC Et Al. v. CASTRO Et Al.Court of Appeals of Georgia · 2019
- GUTIERREZ Et Al. v. HILTI, INC.Court of Appeals of Georgia · 2019
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