Fulton-DeKalb County Hospital Authority v. Estes

Birdsong, Chief Judge.

We granted an interlocutory appeal to the defendant in this slip and fall case, following a denial of summary judgment.

The plaintiff/appellee, Vivian Estes, is an elderly woman who fell in the employees’ cafeteria at Grady Memorial Hospital, during a visit to her husband who was a patient. She contends the floor was wet and that is why she fell, and that her clothes were wet after her fall. Several employees in the cafeteria testified by affidavit and deposition that there was no water on the floor.

The trial court held, in denying summary judgment to the defendant: “Two…