Legal Opinion
Blocker v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided September 18, 2007No. A07A1855PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BLACKBURN, Presiding Judge.
In this slip and fall case, Sallie Blocker appeals the grant of summary judgment to Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (Wal-Mart), contending that material issues of fact exist as to Wal-Mart’s constructive knowledge as shown by (1) whether nearby Wal-Mart employees were in a position to discover the hazard on which Blocker slipped, and (2) whether Wal-Mart should have discovered the hazard according to its routine inspection procedure. We conclude that the trial court correctly ruled that nearby Wal-Mart employees were not in a position to easily see the hazard, but because…
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