Court Opinion

ID: 9613115
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Date Created: 2023-08-22 04:14:24.496566+00
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Beasley, Presiding Judge,
concurring specially.
I concur because there was no evidence that either defendant had knowledge of any prior purse-snatching or assault. Whether they were similar or not is unnecessary to consider.
As shown in the majority opinion, there is no evidence that the 1989 Lampp incident, which occurred some 13 months previous to the attack on Martha Spivey, was reported to any employee of either defendant. As to the other incident, the only evidence of it is that security guard Tipton merely deposed that he heard of it after the Spivey incident. Even assuming this was admissible under OCGA §§ 24-3-33 and 10-6-64, see Coffee Butler Svc. v. Sacha, 208 Ga. App. 4, 6 (2) (430 SE2d 149) (1993), it can hardly constitute prior notice to defendants.
*684Decided December 2, 1994
Reconsideration denied December 19, 1994
Anderson, Walker & Reichert, Robert A. B. Reichert, Chambless, Higdon & Carson, Joseph H. Davis, Mary M. Katz, for appellants.
Lovett & Hicks, William E. Hicks, Frederick V. Massey, for appellee.