Corda v. Brook Valley Enterprises, Inc.

WEBB, Judge.

We believe that Michael Corda was an invitee on the premises of Brook Valley Enterprises, Inc. at the time he allegedly drowned and the lifeguard owed him the duty to exercise the care that a reasonably prudent person who was serving as a lifeguard at the Brook Valley Country Club at the time would have exercised. See Clark v. Roberts, 263 N.C. 336, 139 S.E. 2d 593 (1965). We believe a reasonably prudent person acting as a lifeguard would have observed the pool for swimmers in distress and would have been alert to aid swimmers in distress. We hold that there was sufficient…