Gibson v. Consolidated Credit Corp.

Eberhardt, Judge.

There is no merit in the contention that the defendant was negligent in the use of tile as a floor covering in its place of business, for tile of one kind or another —asphalt, rubber based, cork, plastic, ceramic, etc., has come to be perhaps the most widely used of materials in the building *172trade for covering floors. It is used on wood and on concrete— perhaps other bases. Architects specify it. Contractors use it. Builders buy it. Everybody accepts it.

This court took judicial notice in Holloman v. Henry Grady Hotel Co., 42 Ga. App. 347, 348 (156 SE 275) that marble is a…