Heard v. City of Villa Rica

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that we cannot apply a “wrong for any reason” rule to reverse a trial court ruling on an issue not raised before that court
• finding that a coach was immune from liability because parents could not prove he was grossly negligent for a child’s injuries
• finding no fact question on gross negligence where volunteer track coach used recognized technique for teaching children how to execute a proper long jump
• defining gross negligence as the failure to exercise even a slight degree of care or lack of diligence that even careless men are accustomed to exercise
• “Gross negligence has been defined as equivalent to the failure to exercise even a slight degree of care.”
• “[O]ur appellate courts are courts for the correction of errors of law committed in the trial court. Routinely, this Court refuses to review issues not raised in the trial court.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).