RUSH, Chief Justice.
Under Indiana Trial Rule 56, summary judgment is precluded by any "genuine" issue of material fact — that is, any issue requiring the trier of fact to resolve the parties' differing accounts of the truth. Merely resting on the pleadings will not permit the non-movant to raise such an issue, but a competent affidavit will. Here, Defendant's affidavit was self-serving and none too detailed — but it was competent, and it contradicted...
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