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MEDICAL CENTER HOSP. AUTH. v. ANDREWS

38964.

250 Ga. 424 (1982)

297 S.E.2d 28

MEDICAL CENTER HOSPITAL AUTHORITY v. ANDREWS et al.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Rehearing Denied December 15, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. Martelle Layfield, Jr., Jerry A. Buchanan, Albert W. Stubbs, for appellant.

B. Seth Harp, Jr., Arthur L. Smith III, for appellees.

William P. Trotter, Mullis, Reynolds, Marshall & Horne, Charles M. Cork III, Billy E. Moore, J. Sherrod Taylor, Jack T. Brinkley, Jr., J. Anderson Harp, Keenan & McColm, Don C. Keenan, James & Carey, John James, Jones, Bird & Howell, Jack Spalding Schroder, Jr., Scott R. Owens, J. Steven Garthe, Sell & Melton, John D. Comer, Dodd, Driver, Connell & Hughes, H. Boyce Connell, Jr., Randall L. Hughes, Walter E. Sumner, E. Kenneth Jones, Perry, Walters & Lippitt, H. H. Perry, Jr., Michael J. Bowers, Attorney General, Patrick W. McKee, Assistant Attorney General, amici curiae.

CLARKE, Justice.

We granted certiorari primarily to consider the question of whether a hospital authority created pursuant to Code Ann. Chapter 88-18 enjoys sovereign immunity. The Court of Appeals held that it does not. Medical Center Hosp. Auth. v. Andrews, 162 Ga.App. 687 (292 S.E.2d 197) (1982). We agree and affirm.

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