Lucas v. Bob Hurst Mazda-Peugeot Automobiles

Birdsong, Presiding Judge.

Lien for Legal Services. These proceedings arose when James E. Hall was killed as a pedestrian. He left no wife or parents but was the father of two illegitimate children. At the time of his death, no individual member of his family (his survivors) had any independent cause of action. Thus his sister, Mattie Mae Hall, brought suit in February 1983 as administratrix of James Hall’s estate pursuant to OCGA § 51-4-5 for two purposes: (1) to recover the full value of the life of James Hall (subsection (a), a suit on behalf of the next of kin (DeLoach v. Emergency Medical…