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  • Dolphin Realty v. Headley

    Publication Date: 2005-02-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Philip W. Savrin and Sun S. Choy Freeman, Mathis & Gary LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles W. Lane Lane & Lane, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A1784

    The defendant landlord was entitled to summary judgment on the tenant's premises liability claim arising from two attacks by the same assailant in her apartment, because the landlord had no knowledg

  • Griffiths v. Rowe Properties

    Publication Date: 2005-02-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Clark C. Adams Jr., Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Douglas C. Vassy Tissinger, Vance & Greer PC, Columbus, for appellees. Other party representation: Arthur L. Waters, Roswell.
    Case Number: A04A2211

    As an out-of-possession landlord, the owner of an apartment complex could only be liable to third persons for defective construction or failure to r

  • Holcomb v. Walden

    Publication Date: 2004-12-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William G. Hasty Jr. and Patricia B. Ball Hasty, Pope & Ball LLP, Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Terry E. Williams and Jason C. Waymire Terry E. Williams & Assocs. PC, Lawrenceville, for appellees.
    Case Number: A04A2333

    The deputy sheriff violated not duty for which he could be held liable, even though he had an earlier encounter with the unlicensed driver who caused the acc

  • Reid v. Midwest Transp.

    Publication Date: 2004-12-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James N. Sadd Slappey & Sadd, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Stephen J. Caswell Lane, O'Brien & Caswell PC, Ronald R. Coleman Jr. and Alexander S. Lurey Dennis, Corry, Porter & Smith, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A04A1821

    The driver of a tractor-trailer, who parked in an emergency lane and ran to help the occupants of a vehicle that went off into a ravine, was entitled to summary judgment in a negligence action broug

  • Whitmire v. Georgia Power Co.

    Publication Date: 2004-12-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Hardy Gregory Jr., Cordele, Francis L. Morris Jr. Morris, Webster & Corless, Tifton, Bobby L. Cook, Summerville, and Preyesh K. Maniklal Gregory, Christy, Maniklal & Dennis LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Hugh B. McNatt McNatt & Greene, Vidalia, John R. Reinhardt Reinhardt & Whitley, Tifton, Charles J. Willcox Moore, Clarke, Duvall & Rodgers, Louis E. Hatcher, Albany, and Robert L. Pennington, Atlanta, for appellees. Other party representation: Frank M. Lowrey IV Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A04A0826

    The Utilities Protection Center was not required to provide notice to the owner and operator of a high-voltage overhead power line, where the responsible party affirmatively denied that work would b

  • Baggett v. Baggett

    Publication Date: 2004-12-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joe L. Anderson, Austell, for appellant.
    for defendant: Barry R. Price Winn, Price & Winn, Joseph H. Fowler Hartley, Rowe & Fowler PC and Adam G. Jett Jr. Jett & Liss, Douglasville, for appellees.
    Case Number: A04A2235

    Appellant was not entitled to an executor's commission for his actions involving property, which was transferred out of his father's estate to him and four other individual beneficiaries by consent

  • Morita v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-12-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert H. Alexander III, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Amy H. McChesney, Russell J. Parker and Frances D. Hakes, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A2299

    Evidence that the defendant previously broke into an apartment, sexually assaulted an 11-year-old girl, took her into the woods and tied her to a chair was admissible to show his motive and lustful

  • Wise v. Tidal Constr. Co. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2004-12-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Eugene C. Brooks IV, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Lee. C. Mundell, Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A1943

    The defendant was entitled to a directed verdict in a negligent construction case because the plaintiff's expert admitted he did not know the standard of care owed by a contractor and there was no e

  • Munroe v. Universal Health Sys. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2004-11-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Eric J. Hertz, Mark D. Link and Houston D. Smith III Hertz, Link & Smith PC, Tucker, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael D. Hostetter, Adriane C. Sammons Nall & Miller LLP, Christine M. Stadler, Atlanta, and Omar R. Zamora Law Office of Pennebaker & Zamora, Dallas, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A1203

    A hospital was not liable under the theory of respondeat superior for the acts of its employee, who allegedly raped the plaintiff while she was a patient at the hospital's residential treatment fac

  • Harrison v. Williams

    Publication Date: 2004-11-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carl G. Bryan, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William J. Williams Johnston, Wilkin & Williams, Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A2008

    Issues of fact remained with regard to the buyer's tender of the purchase price for certain real pro