• Manders v. King

    Publication Date: 2008-10-03
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
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    Case Number: S08A1128; S08A1129

    A son, who received his interest in his mother's condominium as a joint tenant through right of survivorship was not entitled to have the mother's estate pay the outstanding debt on the prop

  • Selph v. Williams

    Publication Date: 2008-10-03
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
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    Case Number: S08A1223

    In determining the ownership of a 50-acre tract of land, which the county acquired from the remainderman in a tax sale, the special master erred in applying statutory law, which did not exist at t

  • American Teleconferencing Servs. Ltd. v. Network Billing Sys. LLC

    Publication Date: 2008-09-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
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    Case Number: A08A1712

    The trial court erred in denying summary judgment to the defendant on the plaintiff's open account claim for teleconferencing services, since the defendant challenged the plaintiff's billing

  • Fuqua Constr. Co. Inc. v. Pillar Dev. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2008-09-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
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    Case Number: A08A1236

    The defendant was entitled to retain earnest money iffs paid for purchase of 81 residential subdivision lots as liquidated damages under Section 10.3 of parties' sales agreement, after the

  • Clark v. Clark

    Publication Date: 2008-08-08
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
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    Case Number: A08A1484

    The appellant's petition for a Year's Support was properly dismissed for non-prosecution under O.C.G.A. § 9-2-60 b, since the last order the probate court issued was filed on November

  • Sadi Holdings LLC v. Lib Properties LTD

    Publication Date: 2008-08-08
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
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    Case Number: A08A1566

    The trial court did not err in dismissing the plaintiffs' renewal suit while their original nearly identical action, involving the same subject matter, was still pending in the same trial court,

  • Jegadeesh v. Ryan

    Publication Date: 2008-08-08
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
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    Case Number: A08A1003

    No evidence showed that the defendants knowingly misrepresented that the home, which they sold to the plaintiffs, had water problems when they signed their disclosure statement several months after

  • Asuamah v. Haley

    Publication Date: 2008-08-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
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    Case Number: A08A0209; A08A0210

    Some evidence showed that the seller of a town home the plaintiff bought was ' "in a position to know of or ver latent defects which it created, and which the buyer could not reasonabl

  • Smith v. Morris, Manning & Martin LLP

    Publication Date: 2008-08-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
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    Case Number: A08A0743; A08A0744

    Questions of fact remained in plaintiffs' suit against a law firm arising out of the extended negotiations involving a real estate development project in which plaintiffs planned to develop a lu

  • Great S.W. Express Co. Inc. v. Great Amer. Ins. Co. of New York

    Publication Date: 2008-08-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
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    Case Number: A08A0625; A08A0626

    The insured failed to prove an essential element of its tortious interference with contract counterclaim in the insurer's declaratory judgment action contesting coverage under an insurance p