RANDOLPH COUNTY HOSPITAL AUTHORITY v. JOHNSON

A94A1232.

215 Ga. App. 283 (1994)

RANDOLPH COUNTY HOSPITAL AUTHORITY v. JOHNSON.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided November 21, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bowles & Bowles, Jesse G. Bowles III, for appellant.

Andrew Scherffius III, Hatcher, Stubbs, Land, Hollis & Rothschild, Robert C. Martin, Jr., Langley & Lee, C. Richard Langley, Watson, Spence, Lowe & Chambless, Thomas S. Chambless, Tisinger, Tisinger, Vance & Greer, Kevin B. Buice, for appellee.


RUFFIN, Judge.

This appeal arises from the denial of Randolph County Hospital Authority's ("hospital authority") motion for summary judgment based on sovereign immunity in a wrongful death action. The trial court held that Art. I, Sec. II, Par. IX of the 1983 Constitution of Georgia does not extend sovereign immunity to a hospital authority because the phrase "the state and all of its departments and agencies," contained in that provision, does not include state,...

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