Opinion ID: 1611019
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Heading: was the trial court in error in granting summary judgment on the theory of negligence?

Text: The complaint of Holifield alleged an alternative ground of recovery based upon negligence. The negligence charged a failure to correct a defective valve and a failure to warn a known defect in the equipment. Yet the affidavits, interrogatories, and admissions fail to establish in the record of a defective valve, but on the contrary a valve in good condition and without defect. There was no evidence that by use of the crescent wrench the valve could not be closed. Without any defect, Getty had no duty to warn. Absent a showing of a genuine issue of a material fact concerning the alleged failure to correct an alleged defect or an alleged failure to warn, the granting of summary judgment on the ground of negligence of Getty was properly granted. M.R.C.P. 56, Brown, supra .