James v. Richmond County Health Department
Court of Appeals of Georgia
1Opinion of the Court
Deen, Presiding Judge.
The appellant commenced this action against the Richmond County Health Department in September 1982, alleging that in October 1981 a private physician discovered a carcinogenic tumor on the appellant’s right lung which should have been detected by the appellee health department when it took a chest X-ray of the appellant in January 1980. In answering the complaint, the appellee raised, inter alia, the defense of sovereign immunity. The trial court granted summary judgment for the appellee, and this appeal followed. Held:
The state is immune to suit for any cause of action…
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