RAINES & MILAM v. MILAM

63156, 63157.

161 Ga. App. 860 (1982)

289 S.E.2d 785

RAINES & MILAM et al. v. MILAM et al. (two cases).

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Rehearing Denied March 30, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James T. McDonald, Jr., Douglas A. Bennett, for appellants.

William V. George, Lavinia B. George, amicus curiae.

Lawson A. Cox II, Benjamin H. Terry, for appellees (case no. 63156).

Lawson A. Cox II, Michael J. Bowers, Attorney General, Robert S. Stubbs II, Executive Assistant Attorney General, Verley J. Spivey, Marion O. Gordon, Senior Assistant Attorneys General, Gary R. Hurst, Assistant Attorney General, for appellees (case no. 63157).


SOGNIER, Judge.

These are companion cases with identical issues; therefore, we will decide them in one opinion. Donald Milam was employed by and was working with his father, Cordie Milam, for the summer. On July 28, 1978 Cordie and Donald were working on a pipe laying job and were buried when a ditch collapsed, resulting in their deaths by suffocation. An investigator was appointed by the workers' compensation insurance carrier, and the investigator determined that...

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