Standard v. Hobbs

Smith, Chief Judge.

Dianne Standard brought suit against a McDuffie County sheriff’s deputy to recover damages for personal injuries she and her daughter sustained as a result of a collision between the car she was driving and a car driven by Clinton Hoyt Braswell. At the time of the collision, the deputy was pursuing Braswell at high speeds. The trial court granted summary judgment to the officer, Michael Hobbs, finding that Hobbs’s actions were discretionary rather than ministerial, that the county’s waiver of sovereign immunity through the purchase of insurance for its vehicles did not…