Legal Opinion
PATTERSON v. KEVON, LLC
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided August 20, 2018No. S17G1957Published
1Opinion of the Court
304 Ga. 232
FINAL COPY S17G1957. PATTERSON et al. v. KEVON, LLC. BOGGS, Justice. We granted this petition for certiorari to consider whether summary judgment for the defendant was properly granted in this food poisoning case. In Patterson v. Kevon, LLC,
342 Ga. App. 256
( 802 SE2d 442) (2017), a sharply divided Court of Appeals affirmed the trial court’s grant of summary judgment to the defendant caterer on the issue of proximate cause.1 For the reasons stated below, we find that the standard that has developed over the years in the Court of Appeals has conflated cases at both the trial and…
2Cases cited20 opinions
- Lau's Corp., Inc. v. HaskinsSupreme Court of Georgia · 1991
- Cowart v. WidenerSupreme Court of Georgia · 2010
- Cowart v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2013
- Castleberry's Food Co. v. SmithCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1992
- Patterson v. Kevon, LLCSupreme Court of Georgia · 2018
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