Payne v. Golden

This court granted certiorari to review the Court of Appeals’ decision in Golden v. Payne, 152 Ga. App. 800 (264 SE2d 292) (1979).

We posed for resolution the following issue: When a plaintiff must produce an expert’s opinion that the defendant was negligent in order to avoid the grant of a directed verdict in favor of the defendant, must that plaintiff also produce said opinion in order to avoid the grant of summary judgment in favor of the defendant when the defendant moves for summary judgment solely on the basis of his own affidavit, submitted in his capácity as an expert, that he was not…