Legal Opinion
Camp v. Coweta County
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided January 17, 2006No. S05G0892PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SEARS, Chief Justice.
After suffering an injury while on a work detail at the Coweta County Fairgrounds, inmate David Lamar Camp brought suit in the Coweta County Superior Court against the Georgia Department of Corrections, Coweta County, and other parties. The superior court *200dismissed the suit because Camp failed to mail a copy of the complaint to the Attorney General, as required by OCGA§ 50-21-35. The Court of Appeals affirmed.1 We granted certiorari in this case to determine whether compliance with that requirement is essential to perfecting service and whether an initial failure to…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Stallings v. StallingsSupreme Court of Georgia · 1907
- Howard v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1997
- Security Life Insurance Co. of America v. ClarkSupreme Court of Georgia · 2000
- Camp v. Coweta CountyCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2005
- Department of Human Resources v. NationCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2004
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3Cited by30 opinions
- Georgia Department of Corrections v. CouchSupreme Court of Georgia · 2014
- Cummings v. Georgia Department of Juvenile JusticeSupreme Court of Georgia · 2007
- Perdue v. Athens Technical CollegeCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2007
- Farmer v. Georgia Department of Corrections.Court of Appeals of Georgia · 2018
- Hedquist v. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc.Court of Appeals of Georgia · 2007
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