143 Ga. App. 55 - Cornett v. Agee’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
1 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 2012
1 district · 21 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Harrison v. Kiser · 3 Ga. App. 769 - Rome Railway & Light Co. v. Keel · 103 Ga. App. 141 - Mercer v. J. & M. TRANSPORTATION CO. · 5 N.C. App. 60 - Rowe v. McGee · Roberts v. Harrison
Most-quoted passages
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““This is well illustrated by the cases of dangerous trees. It is still the prevailing rule that the owner of rural land is not required to inspect it to make sure that every tree is safe, and will not fall over into the public highway and kill a man, although there is already some little dissent even as to this, and at least if the defendant knows that the tree is dangerous he will be required to take affirmative steps. But when the tree is in an urban area, and falls into a city street, there is no dispute as to the landowner’s duty of reasonable care, including inspection to make sure that the tree is safe. The cases of trees therefore suggest that the ordinary rules as to negligence should apply in the case of natural conditions, and that it becomes a question of the nature of the locality, the seriousness of the danger, and the ease with which it may be prevented.” ... “A landowner who knows that a tree on his property is decayed and may fall and damage the property of an adjoining landowner is under a duty to eliminate the danger, even if the tree grew on and became part of the land by natural condition.” . . . We are specifically limiting liability in this case to patent visible decay and not the normal usual latent micro-non-visible accumulative decay. In other words, there is no duty to consistently and constantly check all pine trees for non-visible rot as the manifestation of decay must be visible, apparent, and patent so that one could be aware that high winds migh”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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