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  • Holland v. Holland

    Publication Date: 2004-05-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Randall M. Clark, Brunswick, for appellant.
    for defendant: Dennis J. Strickland Sr., Waycross, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A0549

    The trial court's award of a year's support to the surv spouse clearly exceeded the amount necessary to support and maintain her for 12 months at her prior standard of l

  • Wilson v. Wilson

    Publication Date: 2004-05-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jan V. Hinson, Alice A. Blanco, Duluth, and Robert L. Jones, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: David A. Webster, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04F0234

    Georgia courts take an intermediate approach to the question of whether parties in a civil action have an absolute right to closing arg

  • Folds v. Barber

    Publication Date: 2004-05-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Curtis R. Richardson, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Randall L. Keen, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04A0577

    The parties never reached a meeting of the minds as to a set fee for real estate referrals the plaintiff gave to the defe

  • McKenna, Long & Aldridge LLP v. Keller

    Publication Date: 2004-05-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter C. Canfield, Thomas M. Clyde and Marcia K. Stadeker Dow, Lohnes & Albertson, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Neal H. Howard and William D. James Neal H. Howard & Assocs. PC, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A0624

    The plai could not sue his adversary's law firm for negligence where the law firm owed no legal duty to the plai

  • Smith v. Gordon

    Publication Date: 2004-04-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher L. Casey J. Hue Henry PC, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Janney E. Sanders Clifton, Sanders & Smith, Toccoa, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A0449

    Economic distress does not constitute legal d

  • Cistola v. Daniel

    Publication Date: 2004-04-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John R. Grimes Lefkoff, Duncan, Grimes & Miller, Atlanta, for Cistola. Robert K. Woo Jr. King & Spalding, Atlanta, and Frederick E. Link Hartness & Link, Gainesville, for Daniel and others. Frank Armstrong III Stewart, Melvin & Frost, Gainesville, for Odegaard and others.
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    Case Number: A03A2482; A03A2483

    The defendants were not entitled to a directed verdict on the plaintiff's fraud claim arising from his execution of a "corrective" quitclaim deed at the request of the defendants' real estate agent

  • Hudson v. Pollock

    Publication Date: 2004-04-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas P. Kiley Kiley, Nebl & Harpoer PA, Eatonton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Glenn S. Bass Goldner, Sommers, Scrudder & Bass, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A03A2008

    A jury question remained as to whether the defendant and his wife misrepresented the condition of the septic tank in the house they sold to the plai

  • Diversified Golf LLC v. Hart County Bd. of Tax Assessors

    Publication Date: 2004-04-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John A. Howard, Gregory F. Hartley, James H. Ludlam Burr & Forman LLP, Atlanta, and Robert E. Ridgway Jr., Hartwell, for appellant.
    for defendant: Julius M. Hulsey, Jane A. Range Hulsey, Oliver & Mahar, Gainesville, and Walter J. Gordon, Hartwell, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A2276; A03A2317

    The severe restrictions on the use, ownership and operation of leased property indicated that the plaintiff's interest was a non-taxable usufruct, rather than a taxable estate for

  • Killean Partners Inc. v. Southeast Properties Inc.

    Publication Date: 2004-04-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gary S. Freed, William J. Piercy Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Martin, and Suzanne E. Deddish Freed & Berman PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Daniel N. Esrey, T. Michael Tennant and Andrew M. Gibson Alston & Bird, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A2563

    Nothing in the plain and explicit terms of the Georgia Brokerage Relationships in Real Estate Transactions Act precludes a broker from recovering under common law in the absence of a brokerage agre

  • MacDonald v. Harris

    Publication Date: 2004-04-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey H. Schneider and Louis P. Owens III Weissman, Nowack, Curry & Wilco PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel C. Jason, Stone Mountain, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A0301

    The trial court abused its discretion in awarding attorneys' fees to the defendant without a hearing and without supporting the award with the requisite fin