Johnston v. Widener

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• summary judgment correctly granted to premises owner when evidence did not show that premises owner had superior knowledge of dangers associated with task
• plaintiff injured while cutting a tree limb assumed the risks of any dangers that “would ordinarily and naturally exist in doing the work which he was employed to perform”
• exception to OCGA § 51-3-1 applied where plaintiff’s “injury was received from a danger that would ordinarily and naturally exist in doing the work which he was employed to perform”
• Odister assumed risk of cutting a tree limb with a chain saw while standing on a ladder and injury from falling tree limb where his vantage point on ladder gave him opportunity to assess danger

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