Baker v. Reynolds Trucking Co., Inc., 72499
Decision Date | 12 November 1986 |
Docket Number | No. 72499,72499 |
Citation | 351 S.E.2d 657,181 Ga.App. 242 |
Parties | BAKER v. REYNOLDS TRUCKING COMPANY, INC. |
Court | Georgia Court of Appeals |
William V. Evans, Douglas, for appellant.
Frank W. Seiler, James B. Matthews III, Savannah, for appellee.
This is an action to recover for the wrongful death of plaintiff's husband.
Plaintiff alleged that while driving a truck on Highway 38 her husband lost control due to an extreme variation between the road and its shoulder and wrecked; that defendant, a road contractor, was negligent in paving part of the highway so that the shoulder was five to seven-and-a-half inches lower than the road; that defendant was also negligent in failing to provide and maintain safeguards and safety devices so as to protect traffic as set forth in the contract between defendant and the Department of Transportation.
Four days prior to the occurrence on March 16, 1984 defendant completed its job with DOT to repave a certain portion of Highway 38. On March 13, 1984, on authorization of a DOT engineer, defendant removed all warning signs which it had erected. Under the contract with DOT defendant was concerned only with repaving the road and was not responsible for any work on the road shoulders.
The trial court granted defendant's motion for summary judgment and this appeal followed.
In the brief to this court counsel for plaintiff has failed to refer to the particular page numbers of the record where certain proof on which he relies may be found, although he describes the evidentiary documents and gives their internal page numbers. Court of Appeals Rule 15(c)(3)(i) calls for "specific reference to the record" as well as the transcript. Subsections (ii) and (iii) relate expressly to the transcript and specifically call for transcript page numbers. Although subsection (i) does not specifically designate record page numbers, that is what is meant. Obviously much wasted time of the court and opposing counsel can be saved if the briefing party designates the page number in the record or transcript so that a search need not be made. Not only does this consume precious time unnecessarily, it creates the possibility of a wrong guess by the reader, as to what the writer refers to. Further, the reader may not find it. The rule simply calls for a sharing of information indubitably had by the brief-writer, to ease the mechanics of appellate review, so that the party's appeal may be considered on its merits. See Dugger v. Danello, 175 Ga.App. 618, 619(2), 334 S.E.2d 3 (1985); Justice v. Dunbar, 152 Ga.App. 831, 832, 264 S.E.2d 301 (1979); Ross v. State, 173 Ga.App. 313, 315(5), 325 S.E.2d 919 (1985).
Considering the core of plaintiff's contentions it is clear that this case was properly decided below. See Shepherd Constr. Co. v. Watson, 115 Ga.App. 224, 154 S.E.2d 388 (1967), which determined that a road contractor cannot be held responsible for completed work over which it no longer exercises any control. Marshall v. Hugh Steele, Inc., 122 Ga.App. 114, 115(2), 176 S.E.2d 554 (1970). See Derryberry v. Robinson, 154 Ga.App. 694, 695(2), 269 S.E.2d 525 (1980) which sets forth the general rule as to contractors and its exceptions: " 'the contractor is not liable to third persons for damages or injuries subsequently suffered by reason of the condition of the work, even though he was...
To continue reading
Request your trial-
Stopanio v. Leon's Fence & Guardrail, LLC
...authority, control or responsibility over public ways outside the boundary of its contract provisions." Baker v. Reynolds Trucking Co. , 181 Ga. App. 242, 243, 351 S.E.2d 657 (1986) (citations and punctuation omitted).Our review of the record reveals that the trial court was correct in conc......
-
Reed v. Ed Taylor Const. Co.
...such traffic-control devices on completed roads as are necessary to regulate, warn or guide traffic. See Baker v. Reynolds Trucking Co., 181 Ga.App. 242, 351 S.E.2d 657 (1986); Murdock v. Ledbetter-Johnson Co., 105 Ga.App. 551, 125 S.E.2d 99 (1962). In fact, McTyre argues that the contracto......
-
Brown v. Seaboard Constr. Co.
...contractor cannot be held responsible for completed work over which it no longer exercises any control.” Baker v. Reynolds Trucking Co., 181 Ga.App. 242, 243, 351 S.E.2d 657 (1986). “[T]he contractor is not liable to third persons for damages or injuries subsequently suffered by reason of t......
-
Ogles v. E.A. Mann & Co., Inc., No. A05A1413.
...over public ways outside the boundary of its contract provisions." (Citations and punctuation omitted.) Baker v. Reynolds Trucking Co., 181 Ga.App. 242, 243, 351 S.E.2d 657 (1986). Exceptions to the general rule provide that the contractor "is liable where the work is a nuisance per se, or ......