Richard Leon Mitchell v. Young Refining Corporation

LEWIS R. MORGAN, Circuit Judge:

In a diversity action based on negligence, summary judgment was granted in favor of the defendant-appellee, Young Refining Corporation, on the grounds that the plaintiff-appellant Mitchell had assumed the risk of injury to himself when he stepped on some greasy pipes adjacent to a railroad spur on Young Refining’s premises. Finding that the district court correctly interpreted Georgia law applicable to the undisputed facts on the assumption of risk issue, we affirm.

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Appellant Richard Leon Mitchell, a resident of Birmingham, Alabama, was an employee of Southern…