Department of Public Safety v. Boatright

188 Ga. App. 612 (1988)

373 S.E.2d 770

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY

v.

BOATRIGHT.

76546.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided September 7, 1988.

Rehearing Denied September 30, 1988.

Charles W. Barrow, A. Martin Kent, Michael J. Bowers, Attorney General, for appellant.

Rudolph J. Chambless, Vernon L. Chambless, for appellee.

CARLEY, Judge.

Prior to his retirement in December of 1986, appellee-employee was employed as a state patrolman by the appellant-employer Department of Public Safety. On December 1, 1984, the employee, while in pursuit of a suspect, was involved in a crash of his patrol car. He stated…