Dickerson v. Guest Services Co.

3 Citing cases

  1. Dickerson v. Guest Svcs. Co.

    282 Ga. 771 (Ga. 2007)   Cited 31 times
    Holding that summary judgment in favor of property owner was erroneous because there was evidence to create a genuine issue of material fact as to whether property owner had superior knowledge of hazard when the plaintiff's daughter warned an employee about stairs that were wet due to inclement weather "some time" before her mother's fall

    The trial court granted summary judgment to the defendants and the Court of Appeals affirmed. Dickerson v. GuestSvcs. Co. of Va., 281 Ga.App. 387, 636 S.E.2d 44 (2006) . This Court granted certiorari and posed the following question:

  2. Dickerson v. Guest Ser. Co. of Virginia

    657 S.E.2d 559 (Ga. Ct. App. 2008)

    Accordingly, our opinion is vacated, the judgment of the Supreme Court is made the judgment of this court, and the judgment of the trial court is reversed. 281 Ga. App. 387 ( 636 SE2d 44) (2006). 282 Ga. 771 ( 653 SE2d 699) (2007).

  3. COTO v. HYANNIS AIR SERVICE, INC.

    CIVIL NO. 2005-191 (D.V.I. Jan. 31, 2008)   Cited 3 times

    "If a danger is so apparent the invitee can be expected to notice and protect against it, the condition itself constitutes adequate warning." Niblett v. Pennsylvania R. Co., 158 A.2d 580, 582 (Del.Super. 1960); see also Hammer v. Acad. Bus Tours, Inc., 2001 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 17931 (S.D.N.Y. 2001) (finding defendant bus company was not negligent since "the wet stairs were the result of the weather conditions outside at the time of the accident"); Dickerson v. Guest Servs. Co. of Va., 281 Ga. App. 387, 389 (Ga.Ct.App. 2006) ("because a wet step on a rainy day presents a reasonable risk which all may anticipate, [defendant] breached no legal duty owed to [plaintiff]"); Shorts v. New Orleans Public Service, Inc., 522 So. 2d 1265, 1266 (La.Ct.App. 1988) ("there is no breach of duty by the defendant when the passenger's injury was caused by the ordinary wet condition of the bus floor on a rainy day"). In Hess v. United States, 666 F.Supp. 666, 672 (D. Del. 1987), the plaintiff was injured when she slipped and fell on the wet floor in the lobby of the defendant's post office.