After Maria Matta-Troncoso allegedly was attacked by two dogs running unleashed in her neighborhood, she and her husband brought a tort action against the owners of the dogs and their landlord, Gregory B. Tyner. The trial court granted summary judgment in favor of Tyner on the issue of proximate cause, and Matta- Troncoso and her husband seek interlocutory review of that ruling.

Under OCGA § 9-11-56 (h), the grant of summary judgment on any issue or as to any party is reviewable by direct appeal. See City of Demorest v. Town of Mt. Airy , 282 Ga. 653, 654 n.1 (653 SE2d 43) (2007); Whiddon v. Stargell , 192 Ga. App. 826, 827-28 (386 SE2d 884) (1989). We will grant a timely application for interlocutory appeal if the order complained of is directly appealable and the applicant has not already filed a timely notice of appeal. See Spivey v. Hembree , 268 Ga. App. 485, 486 n.1 (602 SE2d 246) (2004). Accordingly, this interlocutory application is hereby GRANTED. The applicants shall have ten days from the date of this order to file a notice of appeal in the trial court. If the applicants have already filed a notice of appeal from the order at issue here, they need not file a second notice. The clerk of the trial court is directed to include a copy of this order in the record transmitted to the Court of Appeals.

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