YATES v. CRUMBLEY

43085.

116 Ga. App. 366 (1967)

157 S.E.2d 295

YATES v. CRUMBLEY.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided September 22, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Neely, Freeman & Hawkins, Paul M. Hawkins, J. Bruce Welch, for appellant.

Hutcheson, Kilpatrick & Watson, Lee Hutcheson, G. Robert Oliver, for appellee.


HALL, Judge.

The defendant contends that under these circumstances the plaintiff was only a licensee on the stairway and as a landlord he owed to her only the duty not to wilfully or wantonly injure her. The issue is whether the facts in the petition show that the plaintiff was a social invitee of the upstairs tenant. To such a person the landlord would owe the duty to exercise ordinary care to keep the premises in repair and free of defective construction. Code...

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