Legal Opinion
EFFINGHAM COUNTY v. Rhodes
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided December 28, 2010No. A10A1839PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ANDREWS, Presiding Judge.
We granted Effingham County and County Commissioner Myra Lewis’s petition for interlocutory review of the trial court’s order denying their motion for summary judgment on sovereign immunity grounds. For the following reasons, we reverse.
Deborah Rhodes sued the County and Lewis, the chairperson of the Board of County Commissioners, 1 after the car she was driving “hit a hole measuring approximately three feet in length.” The complaint alleges that defendant Savannah River Utility “was responsible for the hole in the roadway,” and each defendant was negligent for…
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- Hennessy v. WebbSupreme Court of Georgia · 1980
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- Standard v. HobbsCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2003
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