Epps v. CHATTAHOOCHEE BRICK COMPANY

Clark, Judge.

This appeal is by plaintiff from a summary judgment granted defendant. The issue is to determine if there is liability upon a property owner upon the facts presented where a six-year-old boy drowned when he slipped or fell into a small artificial lake located approximately 900 feet from an apartment complex. The situation presented was so similar to Montega Corp. v. Grooms, 128 Ga. App. 333 (196 SE2d 459) that the trial court relied upon that decision in ruling for the landowner in this suit by the mother for her son’s death.

The lake was accessible either by a path through some…