DEPT. OF HUMAN RESOURCES v. MITCHELL

No. A99A0475.

518 S.E.2d 440 (1999)

238 Ga. App. 477

DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES v. MITCHELL.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Reconsideration Denied June 9, 1999.

Certiorari Denied October 22, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Kathleen M. Pacious, Deputy Attorney General, Loretta L. Pinkston, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Kimberly L. Schwartz, Assistant Attorney General, for appellant.

Davis, Zipperman, Kirschenbaum & Lotito, E. Marcus Davis, Christopher R. Smith, Atlanta, for appellee.


ANDREWS, Judge.

Ronald Paul Mitchell was severely injured while working at Southwestern State Hospital (the hospital) in a community service program as a court-ordered condition of being allowed to serve his sentence for criminal trespass on probation. Mitchell sued the Georgia Department of Human Resources (DHR), which operated the hospital, claiming under the Georgia Tort Claims Act (GTCA) that the DHR, through its employees at the hospital, negligently caused his...

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