Court Opinion

ID: 9566048
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 19:32:36.309036+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:19:59.164863
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Smith, Judge,
concurring specially.
I concur, but I cannot agree with the majority’s reasoning on the issue of causation. A jury could reasonably infer by a preponderance of the evidence that Culberson would not have experienced the impact with the basement floor and injuries accompanying that fall but for the lack of a railing. Nevertheless, Culberson fails to show that the landlord was or should have been aware of the lack of a railing around the stairwell at the time of the fall. For this reason, I find Bastien v. Metropolitan Park Lake Assoc., 209 Ga. App. 881, 882 (434 SE2d 736) (1993), to be distinguishable.