Burns v. Colonial Stores, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that O.C.G.A. § 51-3-1 “cannot support a claim for negligence per se”
• clarifying that a violation of a statutory provision is not negligence per se where “the liability described by th[at] [provision] is simply the common-law liability for injury to another through negligence”
• fact that the family, including dog and cat, became ill shortly after consuming meat was sufficient to create a jury issue regarding whether meat was contaminated

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).