Legal Opinion
Piggly Wiggly Southern, Inc. v. Brown
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided December 20, 1995No. A95A0884PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McMurray, Presiding Judge.
Margaret Brown brought an action against Piggly Wiggly Southern Corporation (“Piggly Wiggly”) for damages she allegedly sustained when she slipped and fell in a small puddle of water in Piggly Wiggly’s grocery store.1 Piggly Wiggly denied the material allegations of the complaint and filed a motion for summary judgment, arguing that Margaret Brown’s admission that she could have seen the water (had she been looking for it) constitutes conclusive proof that Brown’s own carelessness was the sole proximate cause of her alleged injuries.
On the morning of September 14,…
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