Ware County v. Medlock

Deen, Presiding Judge.

This is an interlocutory appeal of the denial of the defendant Ware County’s motion for summary judgment.

The appellee Medlock claimed injuries as a result of falling into a hole when the grass caved in beneath him on the Ware County Courthouse lawn. He had stepped on the lawn, just off the sidewalk, to examine a moonshine still which had been put on display near the jailhouse. He contended that because the grass in that area was brownish or dying, and the nearby sidewalk was cracked above where *543it was later found the hole extended, the county had a duty to inspect the…