Guillman v. Georgia Power Co.

McMurray, Presiding Judge.

Plaintiff Guillman is an employee of an independent contractor who was injured while doing maintenance and repairs at defendant Georgia Power Company’s Plant Branch during a periodic shutdown of a generating unit. The grant of defendant’s motion for summary judgment in plaintiff’s tort action was appealed to this Court. We affirmed the judgment of the superior court without opinion since under our understanding of the law at that time, defendant being actively engaged in the enterprise in which plaintiff was injured was clearly plaintiff’s statutory employer and…