The idiom “what you don’t know can’t hurt you” is holding weight for an Atlanta landlord sued after a deck collapsed at one of his rental properties.
The Georgia Court of Appeals tossed the personal injury lawsuit after determining “the plaintiffs failed to introduce evidence from which a jury could conclude that the landlord knew or should have known about the damaged beam, which was undisputedly a but-for cause of the collapse.”
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