COLUMBUS REGIONAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEM v. HENDERSON

No. S07A1082.

652 S.E.2d 522 (2007)

COLUMBUS REGIONAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEM v. HENDERSON et al.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

October 29, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey Albright Brown, Eric Jeffrey Frisch, Thomas S. Carlock, Carlock, Copeland, Semler & Stair, LLP, Atlanta, for Appellant.

Neal Henry Howard, Neal H. Howard & Associates, Columbus, for Appellee.


SEARS, Chief Justice.

We granted certiorari in this case to consider whether, under the circumstances of this case, the trial court was authorized to apply the additur provision of OCGA § 51-12-12(b).1 For the reasons that follow, we conclude that the trial court erred in applying OCGA § 51-12-12(b).

The appellees, Sadie Henderson and Willie Preston, are the parents of Celeste Henderson, who died on February 4, 1997,...

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