Court Opinion

ID: 9575154
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 21:12:04.817901+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:48:04.236446
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Deen, Presiding Judge,
concurring specially.
“Pablo Picasso is still painting at 90; Leopold Stokowski is still conducting at 90; and Pablo Casals is still playing the cello at 95. Cf. Cicero wrote his immortal De Senectute at the age of 86.” Emory Univ. v. Williams, 127 Ga. App. 881, 886 (195 SE2d 464) (1973). The cited case, along with Houser v. Walter Ballard &c. Co., 108 Ga. App. 559 (133 SE2d 924) (1963), recognizes the tendency of downward diminishing decline toward decadence (and finally deterioration, destruction, and death) of entropy affecting all life. While elderly and aged persons, along with all others, must be provided safe premises as invitees, the law seems to require no higher or greater duty of care owed to these persons as a group or classes of persons. The rule may not be the same if a business catered only or specially to exceptionally young groups or to the elderly.
Appellant argues on Motion for Rehearing that the plaintiff, a German immigrant, is a frail, older lady. This might well make a difference before a jury if the bank were not otherwise entitled to the grant of summary judgment. In again reviewing the record, I must vote to affirm. The writer fully concurs with the majority and also concurs specially.