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  "id": 1876622,
  "name": "Melinda Denise BIGELOW v. UNION COUNTY and UNION MEDICAL CENTER",
  "name_abbreviation": "Bigelow v. Union County",
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  "docket_number": "85-194",
  "first_page": "486",
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    "judges": [
      "Purtle, J., not participating."
    ],
    "parties": [
      "Melinda Denise BIGELOW v. UNION COUNTY and UNION MEDICAL CENTER"
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "David Newbern, Justice.\nThe issue presented here is whether a tort claim against Union County and the Union County Medical Center which is owned and run by the county was erroneously dismissed upon appeal from the county judge to the circuit court. We hold the circuit court properly dismissed the claim, and thus the decision is affirmed.\nArk. Stat. Ann. \u00a7 12-2901 (Repl. 1979) makes the county immune from tort liability for the acts of its agents and employees. Realizing she could not sue the county initially in the circuit court, the appellant presented her claim to the county judge pursuant to Ark. Stat. Ann. \u00a7 17-702 (Repl. 1980). The county had not provided a means for settling tort claims against it as is authorized, but not required, by Ark. Stat. Ann. \u00a7 12-2902 (Repl. 1979).\nUpon denial of her claim by the county judge, the appellant sought a de novo review in the circuit court in accordance with Ark. Stat. Ann. \u00a7 27-2006 (Repl. 1979) which provides that the circuit court \u201c. . . shall proceed to try all such appeals de novo as other cases at law. . . .\u201d In his appellant review, the circuit judge held the provisions of \u00a7 12-2901 immunized the county from the appellant\u2019s tort claim. The circuit court thus did, in the de novo review, exactly as it would have had to do if the case had been brought \u201cas other cases at law.\u201d We find no error.\nAffirmed.\nPurtle, J., not participating.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "David Newbern, Justice."
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    "attorneys": [
      "Compton, Prewett, Thomas & Hickey, P.A., by: Floyd M. Thomas, Jr., for appellant.",
      "William A. McLean, for appellee."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Melinda Denise BIGELOW v. UNION COUNTY and UNION MEDICAL CENTER\n85-194\n701 S.W.2d 125\nSupreme Court of Arkansas\nOpinion delivered December 23, 1985\nCompton, Prewett, Thomas & Hickey, P.A., by: Floyd M. Thomas, Jr., for appellant.\nWilliam A. McLean, for appellee."
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