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holding comparative fault of suicidal patient was a question for the jury
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DECIDED JULY 13, 1989. RECONSIDERATION DENIED JULY 27, 1989.
Certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Georgia — 188 Ga. App. 106.
Hart Sullivan, Rush S. Smith, Jr., Brynda S. Rodriquez, Troutman, Sanders, Lockerman Ashmore, H. Carol Saul, Rutledge Q. Hutson, for appellants.
Robert C. Lamar, David W. Davenport, for appellee.
Alston Bird, Jack S. Schroder, Jr., amicus curiae.
We granted certiorari to review the opinion of the Court of Appeals in Brandvain v. Ridgeview Institute, 188 Ga. App. 106 ( 372 S.E.2d 265) (1988). After careful review, we find that the situation in this case is governed by the usual principles of ordinary care and proximate cause, together with other settled principles of law.
Judgment affirmed. All the Justices concur, except Hunt, J., not participating.