Henry Grady Hotel Corp. v. Watts
Court of Appeals of Georgia
1Opinion of the Court
Deen, Judge.
It is strongly contended that the evidence failed to show death by drowning, but rather established that it resulted from asphyxiation because of the regurgitation of food and inhalation of vomitus, that there was no causal connection between any negligence of the defendant and the death, and that the boy failed to exercise care for his own safety and assumed the risk of drowning by entering the pool in the first place. In Dillashaw v. Coogler, 114 Ga. App. 139 (150 SE2d 161), a drowning case relied upon by the defendant, the holding is simply that the defendant was not negligent,…
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