BORDERS v. BOARD OF TRUSTEES, VFW

No. A97A2079.

500 S.E.2d 362 (1998)

231 Ga. App. 880

BORDERS v. BOARD OF TRUSTEES, VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS CLUB 2875, INC.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Reconsideration Denied April 2, 1998.

Certiorari Denied September 11, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey G. Gilley, John E. Kardos, Athens, for appellant.

McLeod, Benton, Begnaud & Marshall, Richard L. Brittain, Athens, Webb, Carlock, Copeland, Semler & Stair, Dennis J. Webb, Atlanta, for appellee.


ELDRIDGE, Judge.

Sixty-seven-year-old Ida Mae Borders filed suit against the Veterans of Foreign Wars Club 2875, Inc. ("VFW") for damages arising out of a fall she sustained at a VFW dance when a fellow invitee, Clarence Hawkins, staggered into her and knocked her to the floor, breaking her foot, leg, and fracturing her hip. In her complaint, Borders asserted that Hawkins was obviously intoxicated, that such intoxication presented a danger to invitees, that the VFW...

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