Bray v. Houston County

Pope, Judge.

James E. Bray, Jr., filed suit against Houston County seeking judgment for damage and loss of use of his vehicle occurring while he was serving as a volunteer member of the Houston County Emergency Management Team, which was assisting the sheriff’s office in a nighttime search for a weapon involved in a crime. The complaint alleged that Bray’s timely demand for settlement had been denied by the County Board of Commissioners, and that as a proximate result of the tortious acts of the county officers which amounted to the taking of or damage to private property directly for public…