Cheney v. Fulton-DeKalb Hospital Authority

Birdsong, Presiding Judge.

Debra Cheney appeals the grant of summary judgment to the Fulton-DeKalb Hospital Authority (Authority) in this personal injury suit filed after an escape down a stairwell during a purported fire left her with a broken bone in her foot. The Authority cross-appeals on grounds that, in awarding summary judgment to it, the trial court erred in considering a plaintiff’s affidavit filed after the summary judgment hearing to combat issues raised by the Authority at the summary judgment hearing.

The plaintiff was attending a nursing seminar at Grady Hospital in May of 1987,…