Court Opinion

ID: 9596262
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 00:47:44.455405+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:01:34.383494
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Quillian, Judge,
dissenting. The petition alleged that the defendant “through its agents, servants and employees, was negligent in that said vaporizer was carelessly and wrongfully placed next to plaintiff’s bed; that the hot water was allowed to accumulate on plaintiff’s bed, causing her to burn her hand and lose her balance and fall over the vaporizer which had been negligently and carelessly placed in close proximity to plaintiff’s bed by the defendant’s agents, servants and employees.”
The plaintiff’s entire testimony as to what caused her to fall was as follows: “Well, I got up to go to the bathroom and when I came back I started to get in the bed. And I put my hand on the side of the bed and it was hot and it burnt my hand and that caused me to fall.” There was no other evidence which was sufficient to support the allegation of the petition that the defendant was negligent in allowing hot water to accumulate on the plaintiff’s bed. There being no evidence of this vital controlling link in the chain of events necessary to make out the plaintiff’s case, in the writer’s opinion the trial judge’s direction of a verdict was proper. Walker v. Vale Boyal Mfg. Co., 75 Ga. 29 (1); Barron v. Evans, 115 Ga. App. 73 (153 SE2d 577).
I am authorized to state that Judge Pannell concurs in this dissent.