Span v. Phar-Mor, Inc.

Eldridge, Judge.

This appeal arises out of the state court’s grant of summary judgment to appellee-defendants Phar-Mor, Inc. and John Does One through Five (“Phar-Mor”)1 upon a personal injury action filed by Coca-Cola bulk merchandiser2 appellant-plaintiff Rufus Span. Therein Span averred that he suffered neck, shoulder, and back injuries upon manually moving by pallet jack two pallets of Coca-Cola in Phar-Mor’s stockroom. Span contends that summary judgment for Phar-Mor was error: (1) as granted contrary to the Supreme Court’s decision in Robinson v. Kroger Co., 268 Ga. 735 (493 SE2d 403)…