Stone v. Taylor

Johnson, Presiding Judge.

Jacqueline Lee Stone appeals the trial court’s grant of summary judgment to Virgil Taylor, Chairman of the Bacon County Commission, and Larry Deen, Bacon County Road Supervisor, on grounds of sovereign and official immunity. We review the trial court’s order under the standard established in Lau’s Corp. v. Haskins, 261 Ga. 491 (405 SE2d 474) (1991), to decide whether the evidence, when taken in the light most favorable to Stone, establishes a genuine issue of fact regarding whether Taylor and Deen are entitled to immunity as a matter of law. For reasons which follow,…