The Supreme Court of Georgia on Tuesday ruled 4� 3 that a motel doesn’t have a legal duty to check on a guest’s welfare at his worried wife’s request.
The decision likely means the end to the wrongful death action brought by the wife of Sidney Rasnick, a 77-year-old Texas man who on March 13, 2006, was found in distress on the floor of his motel room in Jesup, about 65 miles southwest of Savannah. He died of heart trouble later that day. The wife’s lawyer, James M. Poe of Atlanta, said Tuesday he was contemplating asking the court to reconsider. But such requests seldom are granted.
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