Sayed v. Azizullah

Smith, Judge.

During a family outing, 17-year-old Tariq Sayed drowned at a public park on Lake Lanier. Said and Latifa Sayed, Tariq’s parents, brought this action against their nephew, Haroon Azizullah, who was with his younger cousin Tariq in the water some time before he drowned. The trial court found that Tariq was “a healthy seventeen year old male of normal intelligence” and “understood and appreciated the dangers of swimming” and that “as a matter of law he assumed the risk of danger by voluntarily going swimming in a lake without using any flotation devices whatsoever.” The trial court…