Case ID: ga-app_275/html/0689-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "MlKELL, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

A03A1975.
    GONZALEZ v. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION.
    (621 SE2d 621)
    Decided October 4, 2005.
    
      Grist & Brock, Joel M. Grist, Jr., for appellant.
    
      Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Bryan F. Dorsey, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.
   MlKELL, Judge.

In Gonzalez v. Dept. of Transp., 265 Ga. App. 610 (594 SE2d 783) (2004), we held that a nonresident alien lacked standing to maintain a wrongful death action against the state Department of Transportation under the Georgia Tort Claims Act. The Supreme Court granted certiorari and, in Gonzalez v. Dept. of Transp., 279 Ga. 230 (610 SE2d 527) (2005), reversed our decision. Therefore, we vacate our earlier opinion and adopt the judgment of the Supreme Court as our own.

Judgment reversed.

Johnson, P. J., and Bernes, J., concur.