Williams v. EMRO Marketing Co.

Judge Harold R. Banke,

dissenting.

Because Williams failed to present any probative admissible evidence as to what caused his unwitnessed fall, I dissent. Before this *473case, it was a well-established principle of Georgia tort law that proof of the occurrence of a fall is not sufficient to establish negligence or give rise to liability. “Falling and injuring one’s self proves nothing. Such happenings are commonplace wherever humans go.” (Punctuation omitted.) Hall v. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, 223 Ga. App. 88, 91 (1) (476 SE2d 789) (1996); Wilson v. Duncan, 211 Ga. App. 814, 815 (440 SE2d…