Legal Opinion
Weickert v. Home Depot U.S.A., Inc.
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided October 30, 2018No. A18A0904PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Doyle, Presiding Judge.
*889 Denis Weickert filed a negligence action against Home Depot U.S.A., Inc., after he slipped and fell in water on the floor of the garden center in one of its stores. Weickert appeals the trial court's grant of summary judgment to Home Depot, arguing that (1) he lacked knowledge of the "specific hazard" that caused his fall, and (2) he was distracted by a Home Depot employee, such that he was prevented from seeing the hazardous condition. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.
Viewed in the light most favorable to Weickert, 1 the record shows that he was a frequent…
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