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BRADLEY CENTER v. WESSNER

38636.

250 Ga. 199 (1982)

296 S.E.2d 693

BRADLEY CENTER, INC. v. WESSNER et al.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided October 27, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

S. E. Kelley, J. Ronald Mullins, Sidney F. Wheeler, Michael T. Bennett, D. Keith Calhoun, for appellant.

Lee R. Grogan, William C. Rumer, G. Michael Agnew, Milton D. Jones, for appellees.

GREGORY, Justice.

In a matter of first impression the Court of Appeals held that appellant, a private mental health hospital, may be held civilly liable for the murder of appellee's mother by appellees' father, a patient in appellant's facility. Bradley Center v. Wessner, 161 Ga.App. 576 (287 S.E.2d 716) (1982).

Briefly, the relevant facts are as follows: Appellee's father, Matthew...

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