WHITESELL Et Al. v. GEORGIA POWER COMPANY

MILLER, Presiding Judge.

This appeal arises from the death of Leroy Vernon Jones after he was struck by vehicles while walking along a road at night in Valdosta. The administrator of Jones’s estate and his daughter (collectively “Whitesell”) timely sued Georgia Power Company (“Georgia Power”), alleging that inadequate lighting on the road caused Jones’s death. After Whitesell voluntarily dismissed that suit, he filed an attempted renewal suit. Whitesell now appeals from the trial court’s dismissal of his attempted renewal suit. For the following reasons, we affirm.

We review a trial court’s…