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GA. STATE INDEMNIFICATION COMM. v. LYONS

43485.

256 Ga. 311 (1986)

348 S.E.2d 642

GEORGIA STATE INDEMNIFICATION COMMISSION v. LYONS et al.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided October 8, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Bowers, Attorney General, H. Perry Michael, First Assistant Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Jeffrey C. Baxter, Assistant Attorney General, for appellant.

Bensonetta Tipton Lane, for appellees.

MARSHALL, Chief Justice.

The Georgia State Indemnification Commission denied the application for indemnification for the death of the applicants' father, a former guard at the Georgia State Prison at Reidsville, who died of acute pulmonary edema and cardiac arrest two days after being attacked and robbed by two inmates while on duty at the prison. The Court of Appeals, by a 5-4 vote, reversed the judgment of the Superior Court of Fulton County upholding the commission...

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