Board of Regents of the University System v. Daniels

Cooper, Judge.

In this wrongful death action, we granted appellant’s application for discretionary appeal to determine whether the trial court erred in denying appellant’s motion to modify the judgment against it on sovereign immunity grounds following this court’s decision in an earlier appeal that two of appellant’s employees could not be liable as a matter of law. See Walker v. Daniels, 200 Ga. App. 150 (1) (407 SE2d 70) (1991).

Appellees’ son drowned in a campus pool. On the evening of the drowning, appellant’s employees had closed and locked the pool, cancelling the usual recreational swim…