McCoy v. Georgia Baptist Hospital

167 Ga. App. 495 (1983)

306 S.E.2d 746

McCOY et al.

v.

GEORGIA BAPTIST HOSPITAL.

65878.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided July 15, 1983.

Robert G. Wellon, for appellants.

John A. Gilleland, Daryll Love, Robert G. Tanner, for appellee.

CARLEY, Judge.

Plaintiff-appellants, Mr. and Mrs. McCoy, brought the instant tort suit against defendant-appellee Georgia Baptist Hospital (Hospital) and others. Count I sought damages for the mental distress occasioned by the alleged intentional and malicious mishandling of the body of appellants' stillborn child and by a certain telephone communication from the…