Legal Opinion
Robinson v. Kroger Co.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided December 3, 1997No. S97G0065PublishedCited by 560 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Benham, Chief Justice.
Invitee Henrietta Robinson sustained an injury to her knee in a Kroger supermarket when she slipped on a foreign substance on the store’s floor and fell. The trial court granted summary judgment to Kroger in Mrs. Robinson’s negligence action against the store, and the Court of Appeals affirmed, ruling that the proximate cause of Mrs. Robinson’s fall was her failure to exercise ordinary care for her personal safety. Robinson v. Kroger Co., 222 Ga. App. 711 (476 SE2d 29) (1996). We granted certiorari to examine “the proper standard for determining whether the plaintiff in…
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