HOLLYFIELD v. PAPANTONIOU


588 S.W.2d 560 (1979)

Bessie Morgan HOLLYFIELD, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. George PAPANTONIOU, Defendant-Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Tennessee, Eastern Section.

Permission to Appeal Denied September 17, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dan M. Laws, Jr., Elizabethton and Walter Lee Davis, Jr., Johnson City, for plaintiff-appellant.

Rowland E. Verran, Johnson City, for defendant-appellee.


Permission to Appeal Denied by Supreme Court September 17, 1979.

OPINION

FRANKS, Judge.

This appeal presents the issue of whether the failure to give notice of claim to a governmental entity (county), as required under the Governmental Tort Liability Act, is a bar to a suit against an employee (sheriff), when the entity is immune from liability for the alleged cause of action.

On August 6, 1977, defendant, in his capacity as sheriff, executed...

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