Legal Opinion
Cosby v. Lewis
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided March 23, 2011No. A10A2094PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Dillard, Judge.
Richard Lewis and Priscilla Lewis, individually and as parents of Richard L. Lewis III, sued the Hancock County School District and several of its employees, including George Cosby and James Robbins, in both their official and individual capacities, claiming that defendants’ negligence caused the death of the Lewises’ son. Following a defense motion, most of the defendants were dismissed on sovereign-immunity grounds. However, based on Cosby and Robbins’s failure to file timely responsive pleadings, the trial court entered a default judgment against those two defendants in…
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