Southeastern Builders, Inc. v. Starrett

Pannell, Judge.

This is an appeal from the denial of a motion by a landlord for summary judgment in an action brought by a husband and wife, tenants, resulting from the wife’s injuries when a door mat slipped as she stepped upon it in the entrance to the leased premises. This is not a case concerning the mere slipping of a door mat on the floor of an entrance and exit to an apartment (Wilkinson v. Rich’s, Inc., 77 Ga. App. 238 (48 SE2d 552)), but here the mat was resting partly on the door or the door facing and partly on the floor creating a situation entirely different from that when a door…