Doe v. Briargate Apartments, Inc.

I concur with the majority’s affirmance of the trial court’s grant of the defendant’s motion for summary judgment with regard to plaintiff’s claims under OCGA §§ 44-7-13 and 44-7-14. However, I must respectfully dissent to the portion of the majority that reverses the trial court’s grant of defendant’s motion for summary judgment, because I believe that the trial court did not err in so granting Briar-gate’s motion for summary judgment. The majority fails to apply the general rule that a landlord is not the insurer of a tenant’s safety. “It is well established that the landlord is not an…