Legum v. Crouch

How courts have described this case

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• general rule of computation excluding first day and including last day, OCGA § 1-3-1 (d) (3
• “This [C]ourt has generally held that, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the word ‘shall’ is to be read as a word of command.”
• OCGA § 9-3-71 applies to wrongful death claims based on medical malpractice
• “Pursuant to the provisions of OCGA § 9-3-71, the two-year statute of limitation for wrongful death cases emanating from medical malpractice ... begins to run from the date of death, not from the negligent act or omission of the practitioner.”
• decedent died and complaint filed in 1991

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).