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  • Butgereit v. Enviro Tech Environmental Servs. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2003-08-29
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William D. Barwick, Brian D. Burgoon, Jackie L. Volk Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William E. Gray II and Stacey K. Hydrick Gray, Hedrick 7 Edenfield LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A1211

    Defendant's guilty plea to a charge of following too closely constituted an admission of negligence per se, which he failed to rebut with competent evi

  • Schrenko v. DeKalb County School District

    Publication Date: 2003-08-29
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Alfred L. Evans Jr., Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Alfred A. Lindseth, Rocco E. Testani, Melanie W. Crowe Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan LLP, Atlanta, and Gary H. Sams Weekes & Candler, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S03A0367

    The county was not entitled to reimbursement for the cost of transporting students to schools outside their residential attendance

  • Hornsby v. Hunter

    Publication Date: 2003-08-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles C. Stebbins III Warlick, Tritt & Stebbins and David E. Hudson Hull, Towill, Norman, Barrett & Salley, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . John B. Long Dye, Tucker, Everitt, Long & Brewton, Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0243

    An attorney could not foreclose an attorneys' lien on the defendants' real property where the parties' engagement contract did not ly and unambiguously state that the defendants intended for th

  • Chatham County Bd. of Assessors v. Jepson

    Publication Date: 2003-08-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Diane M. McLeod, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: David M. Conner, Walter C. Hartridge and Edgar P. Williams Bouhan, Williams & Levy, Savannah, for appellees.
    Case Number: A03A0031

    The plaintiffs were required to appeal their tax reassessment to the board of equaliz

  • Strait v. Reid

    Publication Date: 2003-08-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: George J. Polatty Jr. Polatty & Sullivan, Roswell, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lori D. Crosby and Robert E. Wilson Wilson, Morton & Downs LLC, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0569

    A jury question remained as to whether the parties reached a binding agreement for the lease of office space in defendant's professional bui

  • Northen v. Tobin

    Publication Date: 2003-08-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nicholas J. Pieschel Dreger, Coyle, McClelland, Bergman & Pieschel LLC, Alpharetta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael S. Rosenthal & Victoria H. Tobin Wagner, Johnston & Rosenthal PC, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0132

    An attorney was entitled to summary judgment in his suit to satisfy a judgment against the defendant's now deceased ex-husband because a settlement agreement incorporated into their divorce decree p

  • Department of Transp. v. Foster

    Publication Date: 2003-08-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, R. O. Lerer, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Anne W. Sapp, Atlanta, Warren R. Power and Jennifer N. Haskins Power & Futch PC, McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: A. J. Welch Jr. and William A. White Smith, Welch & Brittain, McDonough, for appellees.
    Case Number: A03A0060

    Both the plaintiffs' and the defendant's experts employed a proper appraisal methodology in using the comparable sales approach to value the condemned property at $2.50 per square

  • Bickford v. Yancey Dev. Co. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2003-07-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard W. Calhoun and Shilpa S. Masih Brock, Clay, Calhoun, Wilson & Rogers PC, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Fred D. Bentley Jr., Colleen D. Hosack, Sam P. Hensley Jr. Bentley, Bentley & Bentley, John K. Moore, John H. Moore Moore, Ingram, Johnson & Steele, Marietta, and Jeffrey H. Schneider Weissman, Nowack, Curry & Wilco PC, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S03G0475

    The automatic 20-year renewal provisions of O.C.G.A. § 44-5-60 d 1, as amended in 1993, do not apply retroact

  • Davis Co. Inc. v. Department of Transp.

    Publication Date: 2003-07-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles L. Ruffin and Rachel E. Ross Ruffin & Dell, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Atlanta, Carle E. Lancaster, Macon, Luther H. Beck Chandler & Britt LLC, and John H. Zwald Carothers & Mitchell, Buford, for appellee. Other party representation: Michael G. Gray Walker, Hulbert, Gray, Byrd & Christy LLP, Perry.
    Case Number: A03A0812

    The condemnees could not recover business losses based on anticipated profits from a planned-but-not-completed upgraded business on the condemned

  • Makowski v. Waldrop

    Publication Date: 2003-07-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ronald T. Gold Alembik, Fine & Callner, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: David P. Darden, Marietta, and Jeffrey B. Talley Jeffrey B. Talley & Assocs. PC, Dallas, for appellees.
    Case Number: A03A0589

    A lease-purchase o agreement did not satisfy the statute of frauds because it contained an inadequate property descri