Moore-Sapp Investors v. Richards

Smith, Judge.

We granted the applications of Moore-Sapp Investors and the City of Brunswick, Georgia, for interlocutory appeal in this premises liability case to review the trial court’s denial of their motions for summary judgment. We conclude that their motions should have been granted, and we reverse the judgments below.

The record shows that while walking across property owned by Moore-Sapp to reach a grocery store, the plaintiff, John Richards, stepped into a hole where a City of Brunswick water meter either was or had been at one time. It was dark, and Richards did not see the hole.…