The Georgia Court of Appeals has reversed a summary judgment awarded to a Bartow County assisted-living facility following the death of a 90-year-old resident who’d been struck and injured by a sensorless door.

The intermediate appellate court determined jury questions exist as to whether Felton Manor Personal Care had superior knowledge that the automatic doors posed a hazard to its Cartersville residents and whether the decedent, Richard Baney, failed to exercise ordinary care for his own safety by holding a conversation while standing in the automatic doorway.