Court of Appeals of Georgia July 3, 2001, A01A0154 (Latimore v. Department of Transportation)

Phipps, Judge.

Jessie Latimore filed a negligence suit against Alton Norris and the Georgia Department of Transportation (DOT). He claimed that on September 30, 1996, as he attempted to walk across a street, Norris, a DOT employee, backed a DOT vehicle into him. Norris was subsequently dismissed from the lawsuit, and after a trial, the jury returned a verdict in DOT’s favor.