Cagle v. Thorpe

Deen, Presiding Judge.

The appellant, Jean Cagle, was injured in the course of her employment as a nurse at the Georgia Industrial Institute at Alto, Georgia, when she slipped and fell on a recently mopped floor. Cagle brought this action against the appellees, who had contracted with the State of Georgia to manage, the medical floor at the Alto institution. The jury returned a verdict for the appellees, and Cagle appeals, enumerating as error the trial court’s charging the jury on assumption of risk and avoidance of consequences.

At trial, Cagle testified that the floors usually were mopped…