SMITH v. POTEET

47551.

127 Ga. App. 735 (1972)

195 S.E.2d 213

SMITH v. POTEET et al.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided November 17, 1972.

Rehearing Denied December 6, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Congdon, Williams & Daniel, W. Barry Williams, Robert C. Daniel, Jr., for appellant.

Fulcher, Hagler, Harper & Reed, Wiley S. Obenshain, III, Gould B. Hagler, George B. Rushing, for appellees.


CLARK, Judge.

Funerals are lachrymose affairs. For the plaintiff, an elderly mourning relative and retired schoolteacher, her sadness was increased when she sustained painful injuries from a fall which occurred as she was walking across the artificial grass cover customarily placed at the burial site. In the complaint filed against both the funeral director and the cemetery the negligence charged against both defendants was "in permitting the hole or depression in...

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