Legal Opinion
Strickland v. Wilson
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided June 30, 1992No. A92A0367PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Beasley, Judge.
Plaintiffs Strickland instituted this wrongful death action as a result of the death of their two-year-old son Ryan. He was killed when a vehicle which his mother was driving collided with a vehicle driven in the opposite direction and into Strickland’s lane by Bobby Wilson. Ryan was a passenger in his mother’s car.
Wilson did not have a valid driver’s license and was operating his vehicle while intoxicated. He had a history of such. Approximately 90 days before the collision, Wilson was arrested for DUI and driving with a suspended license, and his car was impounded. Vaughn,…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Hennessy v. WebbSupreme Court of Georgia · 1980
- Hicks v. Walker County School DistrictCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1984
- Acker v. City of ElbertonCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1985
- Davis v. Cobb CountyCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1941
- Hicks v. City of AtlantaCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1980
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3Cited by11 opinions
- Gilbert v. RichardsonSupreme Court of Georgia · 1994
- Jack Cummings, Ralph Best, Billy Rodgers, Bruce Henry and Terry M. Walters v. Dekalb County, James Pierce, Cliff Pruett and Richard ConleyCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1994
- Columbia County v. BrantonCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2010
- Coweta County v. CooperCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2012
- Hammond v. Gordon CountyDistrict Court, N.D. Georgia · 2002
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