Legal Opinion
Layfield v. Department of Transportation
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided July 6, 2006No. S05G1058PublishedCited by 53 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARLEY, Justice.
Carol Layfield, as guardian for her son Michael, brought suit against the Department of Transportation (DOT) and Everett Dykes Grassing Company (Dykes). She alleged negligence in the construction and resurfacing of a road where Michael Layfield lost control of a vehicle in a rainstorm and crashed into a tree. After discovery, DOT and Dykes moved for summary judgment. In opposition, Ms.
Layfield presented the testimony of an expert who opined that . . . DOT had not originally constructed the road to *849proper sloping specifications in 1949 and that Dykes’s recent microsurfacing of…
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