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  • Sanders v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-04-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
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    Case Number: A00A0203

    The defendant voluntarily waived his rights to appeal his robbery and aggravated assault convictions when he escaped from custody and fled the state prior to his sente

  • Georgia Lottery Corp. v. Sumner

    Publication Date: 2000-04-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
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    Case Number: A99A2010, A99A2011

    Although the stray printing mark on plaintiff's instant game lottery ticket looked like the winning symbol, the mark was a printing error that voided the ticket due to irregul

  • Stallings v. Sylvania Ford-Mercury Inc.

    Publication Date: 2000-04-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gerald M. Edenfield, Susan W. Cox and Mary E. Adams Edenfield, Cox, Bruce & Classens PC, Statesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph P. Brennan Brennan & Wasden, Savannah, for appellee. Other party representation: Morton G. Forbes, Catherine M. Bowman Forbes & Bowman, Gregory V. Sapp Calhoun & Assocs. PC, Savannah, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Loretta L. Pinkston, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A99A2104

    An automobile dealership did not create an agency relationship with a driver when it loaned her a car in exchange for the car she left at the dealership for re

  • Heath v. Sims

    Publication Date: 2000-04-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Harmon W. Caldwell Jr. and Wade H. Watson III Caldwell & Watson, and Melissa S. Price, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tom Pye Chestnut & Livingston PC, Doraville, for appellees.
    Case Number: A99A2055

    Since the probate court has exclusive jurisdiction over all matters involving t ates of deceased persons, the superior court lacked jurisdiction to hear a beneficiary's damages claims based on

  • Pine Tree Publ'g Inc. v. Community Holdings Inc.

    Publication Date: 2000-04-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Warren R. Power Power & Westbury LLP, Stockbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Katharyne C. Johnson Smith, Welch & Brittain, McDonough, for appellees.
    Case Number: A99A1829

    The trial court had no authority to open the defendant's default under O.C.G.A. § 9-11-55 b without considering whether the plaintiff's final judgment could be set aside pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 9-11

  • Hansche v. City of Atlanta Police Dep't

    Publication Date: 2000-04-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William P. Evans Dietrick, Evans, Scholz & Williams, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Bruce P. Johnson and Susan P. Langford City of Atlanta, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2342

    The trial court should have entered judgment on the employee's award of disability benefits since the award was sufficient on its face and the employer did not appe

  • Hendrix v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-04-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Orin L. Alexis, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, and Melanie Higgins, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2359

    Since defendant beat the victim while he drove her from Cha ounty to Bulloch County and beyond, and the court could not readily determine the county in which he committed the crime, venue in Ch

  • In the Interest of J.W.L.

    Publication Date: 2000-04-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edward F. Smith, Assistant Public Defender, Waycross, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard E. Currie, District Attorney, and James D. Lamb, Assistant District Attorney, Waycross, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0530

    The trial court could find that the juvenile forced the victim, based on a videotape that showed him pulling the victim into the locker room and the victim's testimony that the juvenile pulled her l

  • Crown Diamond Co. v. N.Y. Diamond Corp.

    Publication Date: 2000-04-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald L. Cook McGee & Oxford, Wayne D. Taylor and Lawrence B. Domenico Mozley, Finlayson & Loggins, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Leon V. Gelderen Cornelison & Van Gelderen, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2346, A99A2347

    Appellant's forgetting to file the transcript of a hearing that it included in the appellate record was inexcusable and unreasonably delayed the docketing of its a

  • Lang v. Becham

    Publication Date: 2000-04-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bradley J. Survant and W. Carl Reynolds Reynolds & McArthur, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Thomas C. Alexander Jones, Cork & Miller, Macon, for appellees. Other party representation: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Brenda A. Raspberry, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A99A2345

    Decedent's wife presented evidence that a deputy recklessly disregarded proper law enforcement procedures when he continued to pursue a suspect who turned onto a two-way road and collided head on w