Legal Opinion
Thyssen Elevator Co. v. Drayton-Bryan Co.
District Court, S.D. Georgia
Decided June 30, 2000No. 400CV002Published
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
EDENFIELD, District Judge.
I. BACKGROUND
In 1996, the then recently dissolved law firm of Adams, Gardner, Ellis & Inglesby, P.C. (Adams) employed Elizabeth Roberts — the firm’s former office manager — -to help it wind up its affairs. Doc. # 25 ¶¶ 3-6; 1 #32 at 12-13. Alone inside the firm’s building on a Friday afternoon, she died while attempting to escape from its elevator, which had stopped between floors. Doc. # 25 ¶¶ 5-10. Defendant Drayton-Bryan Company (DB) owned the building, and Adams was DB’s tenant. Id. ¶ 4.
Roberts’s husband subsequently brought a State court wrongful-death…
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- Cohen v. United American BankCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1996
- Muldovan v. McEachernSupreme Court of Georgia · 1999
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