Court Opinion

ID: 9579523
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 21:55:55.901052+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:35:34.366318
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Carley, Judge,
concurring specially.
I completely agree with the majority that the trial court erred in denying each appellant’s motion for summary judgment. With regard to Division 6 of the majority opinion, I agree that Giordano v. Ford Motor Co., 165 Ga. App. 644 (299 SE2d 897) (1983) is distinguishable from this case. However, I do not agree with the reasoning by which the majority has made this “distinction.” In Giordano the product was a carburetor and Giordano’s “priming” of that carburetor could be found by a trior of fact to be a reasonably foreseeable use of the product. In the case at bar, the conduct of appellee prior to the explosion, is not technically a “use” of the product at all and certainly cannot be characterized as reasonably foreseeable. See Hunt v. Harley-Davidson Motor Co., 147 Ga. App. 44 (248 SE2d 15) (1978).