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· 3/8/1985

Elliott v. Burkhalter

Citations

  • 327 S.E.2d 858
  • 173 Ga. App. 749
  • 1985 Ga. App. LEXIS 1681

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • “Knowledge by the owner or occupier or his employee of the dangerous condition created by a third person is a prerequisite to recovery.”
  • “If the altercation and resulting injury happened suddenly and without warning and the defendant could not, by the exercise of reasonable care, have discovered or prevented it, there can be no recovery.”
  • although store owner was aware that children sometimes rode bikes on sidewalk outside entrance of store, it was not foreseeable that customer would be injured by bicyclist as she exited the store

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Carley, Birdsong, Beasley

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