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  • Davis et al. v. Ganas et al.

    Publication Date: 2018-03-28
    Practice Area: Real Estate
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carl Langley (C. Richard Langley, Attorney at Law), Albany; John Sims (Sims, Fleming, Benson), Tifton; William Turner (Attorney at Law), Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: O. Ellerbee (Attorney at Law), Valdosta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A17A1423

    The Court of Appeals partially vacated the grant of partial summary judgment to plaintiffs in their suit arising out of the use of a private lake, holding that although plaintiffs acquired free access to the waters of the lake because their property was included in a platted subdivision that granted the owners such access and plaintiffs relied on such, an issue of fact remained as to whether free access to the waters included the right to construct and/or maintain a boathouse and dock that was anchored to the bottom of the lake.

  • Faison et al. v. Faison

    Publication Date: 2018-03-23
    Practice Area: Real Estate | Trusts and Estates
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Reese
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: W. Meeks (Attorney at Law), Leesburg, for appellant.
    for defendant: John Hadden (Turkheimer & Hadden, LLC), Atlanta; John Cotton (Cotton Law Firm, P.C.), Cordele, for appellee.
    Case Number: A17A1610

    Trial Court Erred In Failing to Determine Heirs Property Before Ordering Mediation in Partition Dispute

  • Suntrust Bank v. Todd Cowan, As Tax Commissioner For Douglas County et al.

    Publication Date: 2018-03-22
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Real Estate | Tax
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Reese
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gregory Crochet (Kutak Rock LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenneth Bernard, Stephanie Regas (Sherrod & Bernard), Douglasville; John Doe, Jane Doe, Douglasville; Regina Jordan, Los Angeles; John Ayoub (Ayoub & Mansour, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A17A1850

    Lienholder Who Received Excess Funds From Tax Sale Was Subject to Subsequent Appellate Court Rulings Modifying Rights of Redeeming Creditors

  • Cahill v. United States

    Publication Date: 2018-03-21
    Practice Area: Contracts | Family Law | Real Estate
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Hunstein
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frank G. Podesta (FGP Law, LLC), Roswell, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lori Marie Beranek, Lisa Dolores Cooper, John A. Horn (United States Attorney's Office), Atlanta; Robert J. Branman (Department of Justice, Tax Division), Joan I. Oppenheimer (Tax Division Department of Justice), Washington, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17Q1559

    Answering a question from the district court, the Court concluded that parties' divorce decree severed the joint tenancy with right of survivorship created by a quitclaim deed executed during their marriage.

  • Zambetti v. Cheeley Investments, L.P. et al.

    Publication Date: 2018-02-07
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Contracts
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Branch
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey L. Evans, for appellant.
    for defendant: Miles Patterson Hansford Tallant, Dana B. Miles; Conley Griggs Partin, Cale Conley, Andre T. Tennille III, Alyssa B. Baskam, for appellees.
    Case Number: A17A1052

    The Court affirmed the jury verdict in favor of plaintiffs in their suit for breach of contract and promissory estoppel arising out of defendant's oral agreement to pay the attorney fees of his legal adversaries in a real estate transaction.

  • Lafontaine et al. v. Alexander et al

    Publication Date: 2018-02-06
    Practice Area: Business Torts | Land Use and Planning | Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Ray
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ted D. Morgan, for Lafontaine et al.
    for defendant: Waldrep, Mullin & Callahan, David C. Rayfield, for Watley and Alexander.
    Case Number: A17A1267

    The Court partially reversed the trial court's grant of summary judgment to defendant in plaintiffs' suit for, inter alia, fraudulent concealment of negligent construction, negligent construction, maintaining an abatable nuisance and negligent construction of the utility lines arising out of the placement of utility easements in a subdivision defendant developed.

  • Black et al. v. Nationstar Mortgage LLC. et al.

    Publication Date: 2018-01-25
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Contracts | Real Estate
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Barnes
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Martin Fierman (Attorney at Law), Madison, for appellant.
    for defendant: Steven Flynn, Kimberly Wright, Jennifer McCall, Jimmy Howell (McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce LLC), Roswell, for appellee.
    Case Number: A17A1587

    The trial court properly granted summary judgment to mortgage companies on their complaint for declaratory judgment and equitable reformation, in which they sought to reverse a foreclosure, void the related deed under power and special warranty deed and reinstate the modified security deed to a first priority position.

  • Great Water Lanier, LLC v. Summer Crest At Four Seasons On Lanier Homeowners Association, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2018-01-19
    Practice Area: Contracts | Real Estate
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Tom Pye (Attorney at Law), Norcross, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jason LoMonaco (Nowack Howard, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A17A1810

    Homeowners Association was entitled to summary judgment in landowner's action seeking a declaratory judgment that its land was not burdened by the declaration of covenants applicable to the subdivision, because landowner accepted a deed that unambiguously conveyed the land subject to the declaration of covenants, and, by doing so, voluntarily consented to be bound by such covenants.

  • Ortho Sport & Spine Physicians Savannah, LLC v. Chappuis et al.

    Publication Date: 2017-12-15
    Practice Area: Business Torts | Civil Procedure
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Self
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Yasha Heidari, Yenniffer Delgado (Heidari Power Law Group LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Scott Bonder, Joseph White, Matthew Kahn (Fried & Bonder LLC), Atlanta; Richard Sanders, Jeffrey Mustari (The Sanders Law Firm P.C.), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A17A1408

    The Court of Appeals partially reversed the trial court's orders granting defendants' motion to strike portions of plaintiffs complaint and motion to dismiss one defendant because it was not clear that the matters sought to be stricken could have no possible bearing upon the subject matter of the litigation.

  • Diversified Holdings, LLP v. City of Suwanee

    Publication Date: 2017-12-07
    Practice Area: Administrative Law | Civil Appeals | Land Use and Planning
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Grant
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew Parks Benson (Mahaffey Pickens Tucker, LLP), Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard A. Carothers, Amy Bryant Cowan, Thomas Monroe Mitchell (Carothers & Mitchell, LLC), Buford, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17A1140

    The trial court properly affirmed a local zoning boards denial of landowner's application to rezone certain property, finding that the denial was not arbitrary or capricious because the propertys current zoning was substantially related to the publics health, safety, morality and welfare.