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TOLBERT v. CRISP COUNTY POWER COMMISSION

71032, 71033.

176 Ga. App. 856 (1985)

338 S.E.2d 295

TOLBERT v. CRISP COUNTY POWER COMMISSION. HARTLEY v. CRISP COUNTY POWER COMMISSION.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided November 15, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William P. Keenan, for appellants.

Robert L. Pennington, P. Melton Culpepper, Jr., for appellee.

BIRDSONG, Presiding Judge.

Wrongful Death — Sovereign Immunity. In 1927 by constitutional enactment, Crisp County was authorized to engage in the generation and sale of electrical current and to sell bonds, construct power generators and enter into necessary contracts in order to carry out its granted powers of generating and selling electrical current.

On December 27, 1982, Gregory Best and Theotis Tolbert were working on a highway site in Crisp County...

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