Legal Opinion
Coates v. Mulji Motor Inn, Inc.
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided February 18, 1986No. 70948PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Beasley, Judge.
On April 28, 1981, the West Laurens High School tennis team registered to stay overnight at the Mulji Motor Inn while in Americus, Georgia, for a tennis tournament. Around 9:00 p.m., the entire tennis team, along with the coach and other adult chaperones, decided to go swimming in the motel pool. At approximately 9:15 p.m., seventeen-year-old Javis Coates, a member of the team, drowned.
No one in the group actually saw how the drowning occurred. One student testified that someone had grabbed and pulled him underwater twice; he had gotten out of the pool to complain to the coach…
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