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BUNCH v. MATHIESON DRIVE APARTMENTS

No. A95A1948.

470 S.E.2d 895 (1996)

220 Ga. App. 855

BUNCH v. MATHIESON DRIVE APARTMENTS, INC.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Reconsideration Denied March 28, 1996.

Certiorari Denied May 23, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gambrell & Stolz, Irwin W. Stolz, Jr., Charles N. Bowen, Seaton D. Purdom, and Gary A. Barnes, Atlanta, for appellant.

Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers, Stephen L. Cotter, Dennis A. Brown, Atlanta, for appellee.

SMITH, Judge.

After a fire began near the gas oven in Starlyn Pettis's apartment, she died from smoke inhalation. Sandra Bunch, Pettis's mother, brought this action for the wrongful death of Pettis and to recover funeral expenses. She alleged that Mathieson Drive Apartments, Inc. (Mathieson) negligently failed to furnish the apartment with a smoke detector and that this alleged negligence was the proximate cause of Pettis's death.1

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