Barry v. Cantrell

Quillian, Presiding Judge.

Richard W. Barry, Jr. (the plaintiff father) and Helen Katherine Barry, a minor (the plaintiff daughter) brought an action for damages against Terry Wayne Cantrell and Katherine T. Cantrell in the DeKalb Superior Court. The complaint alleged that a hammock was located within the backyard of the residence of the defendants which hammock was anchored on one end to a live tree and on the other end to a dead tree about eight to ten feet tall; that the dead tree had been dead for a long time which was well known to the defendants but was not known or disclosed to the…