Court Opinion

ID: 9851822
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 05:20:14.893966+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:22:16.110927
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
We reiterate that this case involves not an action for negligence against the warden individually, but is a suit on the warden’s bond. In arriving at our decision, careful and thorough consideration was given to Cantrell v. Davis, 176 Ga. 745 (169 SE 38). In that case, which did not involve a bond or a statute of limitation, the Supreme Court answered a certified question from this court as to the jurisdiction of the Municipal Court of Atlanta (now the Civil Court of Fulton County) with regard to "an action brought by a mother to recover a certain sum of money alleged to be due her by the defendant because of certain personal injuries sustained by her minor son (upon whom she was dependent for sup*113port and who contributed the amount of his wages to her support), and his death resulting from such injuries.” The Supreme Court in construing the legislative intent emphasized that "the enactment states the reservation as follows: 'except as to cases arising from injuries to the person or reputation/” There is nothing to indicate under Code § 3-1004, as amended, that the legislature intended the two-year statute of limitation to apply to cases arising from injuries to the person as was found in the Cantrell case, supra.

Rehearing denied.