Browning-Ferris Industries of Georgia, Inc. v. Pitts

McMURRAY, Presiding Judge.

Maijorie Pitts was severely injured after her car struck a residential trash container that rolled into her oncoming car’s traffic lane. This appeal followed entry of a favorable judgment for Pitts on a $200,000 jury verdict against the City of Canton’s (“the City”) waste management contractor, Browning-Ferris Industries of Georgia, Inc. (“BFI”). We affirm because the evidence authorizes the jury’s verdict.

The evidence adduced at trial, construed so as to uphold the jury’s verdict (Flournoy v. Brown, 226 Ga. App. 857, 861 (4) (487 SE2d 683)), reveals that BFI owned…