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DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES v. COLEY

No. A00A1491.

544 S.E.2d 165 (2000)

247 Ga. App. 392

DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES v. COLEY et al.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Reconsideration Dismissed December 15, 2000.

Certiorari Denied May 7, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thurbert E. Baker, Atty. Gen., John C. Jones, Senior Asst. Atty. Gen., Gray, Hedrick & Edenfield, Bruce M. Edenfield, Robert L. Bunner, Atlanta, for appellant.

Lawson & Sippel, John A. Lawson, Cole & Cox, Charles E. Cox, Jr., Jason K. Priebe, Macon, for appellees.

RUFFIN, Judge.

While he was a patient at Central State Hospital, an institution operated by the Georgia Department of Human Resources (DHR), Ronnie Dudley was allegedly strangled to death by another patient, Richard Hailey. Dudley's sister, Patricia Coley, individually and as executrix of her brother's estate, sued DHR, claiming that it violated a duty to protect Dudley from harm. In particular, Coley alleged that DHR negligently...

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