Legal Opinion
Williams v. Department of Corrections
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided February 11, 1997No. A97A0063PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Eldridge, Judge.
Appellant sued appellee, the Georgia Department of Corrections (“the Department”), for injuries sustained when the tractor he was operating along a highway right-of-way overturned. At the time of the incident, appellant was serving a sentence as a state prisoner in a jail operated by the Unified Government of Athens-Clarke County (“the county”), which had a contract with the Department to house state prisoners for $10 per day. The supervisor overseeing the mowing operations, Officer Mike Harris (“Harris”), was an employee of Athens-Clarke County Street and Road Department.
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