Jones v. Campbell

Beasley, Judge.

Mr. and Mrs. Campbell were granted summary judgment in a negligence suit for injury to Mr. Jones and loss of consortium to Mrs. Jones.

Viewed in favor of the Joneses, opponents of summary judgment, the evidence was as follows. The Campbells owned the property at issue and had lived there for several years before moving out-of-state in 1979. They rented the residence to the Joneses who lived in it continuously before the incident in 1986. In some years there were written leases and in some years the Joneses carried over.

At the rear of the property was a stream, varying in width…