Garvin v. Atlanta Gas Light Company

DOYLE, Chief Judge.

Kareem Shamed Garvin suffered severe injuries in a natural gas explosion in an outbuilding on his mother’s property. He filed a negligence claim against Atlanta Gas Light Company (“AGL”), which reactivated the gas to the property the day after his mother purchased it, approximately six years before the explosion. Garvin appeals the trial court’s grant of summary judgment to AGL, as well as the court’s denial of his subsequent motion for reconsideration. We affirm for the reasons that follow.

Summary judgment is proper when there is no genuine issue of material fact and the…