JOHNSON v. GEORGIA DEPT. OF HUMAN RESOURCES

No. S04G0817.

606 S.E.2d 270 (2004)

278 Ga. 714

JOHNSON et al. v. GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES et al.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

November 22, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Phears & Moldovan, H. Wayne Phears, Victor L. Moldovan, Norcross, Christopher J. McFadden, Decatur, for appellants.

Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Jennifer L. Dalton, Assistant Attorney General, Perrie & Cole, Robert L. Bunner, Spivey, Carlton & Edenfield, J. Franklin Edenfield, for appellees.

David A. Webster, Edmonds & Jones, Craig T. Jones, amici curiae.


BENHAM, Justice.

Appellant Parthenia Johnson is the mother of a fifteen-year-old child who died due to accidental electrocution in 1995 while living at Broken Shackles Ranch pursuant to a placement agreement with the Georgia Department of Human Resources (DHR) and the Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ), in whose custody the Juvenile Court of Douglas County had placed the child. In her capacity as the mother of the deceased child and as the administratrix of his...

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