Legal Opinion
LA FONTAINE Et Al. v. SIGNATURE RESEARCH, INC.
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided August 2, 2017No. A17A0835PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MILLER, Presiding Judge.
In May 2014, Michigan residents Francis La Fontaine and her husband, Roberto Melendez (collectively “the Appellants”), took a vacation in the Dominican Republic. While participating in a zipline course, La Fontaine was injured when the line collapsed. The Appellants sued Signature Research, Inc. (“Signature”), the Georgia corporation that inspected the zipline, in the State Court of Douglas County. The trial court dismissed the suit under the doctrine of forum non conveniens, and this appeal followed. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.
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3Cited by4 opinions
- La Fontaine v. Signature Research, Inc.Supreme Court of Georgia · 2019
- Francis La Fontaine v. Signature Research, Inc.Court of Appeals of Georgia · 2019
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