Legal Opinion
Pulliam v. Richmond County Board of Commissioners
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided September 30, 1987No. 75387PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Deen, Presiding Judge.
On November 19, 1984, at approximately 10:30 a.m., Mitchell Pulliam was on routine patrol as an officer of the Richmond County Police Department. Immediately upon negotiating a curve in the road, he had to brake and swerve to avoid a motorgrader that was pulling out onto the road. Pulliam lost control of his patrol car and turned into and struck a power company utility pole. The motor-grader, which was driven by an unsupervised inmate of the Richmond County Correctional Institute, continued down the road.
Pulliam got out of his patrol car and made the inmate driver come…
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