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  • Harry v. Dale

    Publication Date: 2007-05-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wilbur T. Gamble III Collier & Gamble LLP, Dawson, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Weyman E. Cannington Jr., Lumpkin, for appellees.
    Case Number: S07A0012

    In the absence of a transcript, the evidence presumably supported the trial court's judgment for the plaintiffs in their suit against their mother and brother each seeking title to five acres of the

  • Martin v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-04-06
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William J. Mason, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: John G. Conger, District Attorney, LaRae D. Moore, Assistant District Attorney, Columbus, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Benjamin H. Pierman, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S07A0452

    A convicted felon may not collaterally attack a prior felony conviction that serves as a predicate offense to O.C.G.A. § 16-1

  • Ray Bell Constr. Co. v. King

    Publication Date: 2007-04-06
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edwin G. Russell Jr. Shivers & Assocs., Alpharetta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Timothy V. Hanofee, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06G0891

    Some evidence supported the Workers' Compensation Board's finding that the decedent was in a state of continuous employment and had completed a personal mission, when he was severely injured in an a

  • Eubanks v. Rabon

    Publication Date: 2007-03-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lance N. Owen Shepherd, Johnston & Owen LLP, Griffin, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard T. Bridges, Thomaston, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A1955

    An increase in the father's child support obligation, which raised it to 28.5 percent of his income and required him to pay that amount until his youngest child reached majority or until age 20 if i

  • Castillo v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-03-16
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William M. Moran Moran & Assocs. and Matthew T. McNally, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jewel C. Scott, District Attorney, Anece B. White, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Laura D. Dyes, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A1807

    The trial court was authorized to interrupt trial counsel's attempt to impeach another witness through a detective's cross-examination, since the trial court already determined that the other witnes

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  • Padron v. Padron

    Publication Date: 2007-03-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Leah M. Singleton Singleton & Singleton LLC, Griffin, for appellant.
    for defendant: Vanessa Padron, Conyers, proceeded pro se.
    Case Number: S06A1965

    A person's immigration status does not preclude him from establishing residency in Georgia for the purposes of obtaining a dissolution of mar

  • Crowder v. Crowder

    Publication Date: 2007-03-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patrick J. Fox McNally, Fox & Grant PC, Fayetteville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Leslie W. Wade Law Offices of Leslie W. Wade and Philip S. Coe, Fayetteville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06F1572

    The trial court did not err in equitably distributing the parties' martial pro

  • Tillman v. Massey

    Publication Date: 2006-12-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Robin J. Leigh and Julie A. Adams, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: George T. Jackson Jackson & Schiavone, Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A1433

    Defense counsel was deficient for failing to object to the trial court's erroneous charge that the presumption of innocence ' ". . .is for the protection of the innocent. It is not intended to be a

  • Shearin v. Wayne Davis & Co. PC

    Publication Date: 2006-12-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Noelani G. Skipper and James J. Phillips Vinson, Talley, Richardson & Cable PA, Dallas, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Glen E. Stinson, Dallas, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A0998

    The two statutory methods by which a governmental body can acquire prescriptive title to a road, which are set forth in O.C.G.A. § 44-5-161-possession of a road for a period of 20 years-and O.C.G.A.

  • Footstar v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2006-12-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert K. Hardeman and Edwin G. Russell Jr. Shivers & Assocs., Alpharetta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Edward E. Boshears, Brunswick, and Bert J. Slotkin Richter, Head, Shinall & White LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S06G0125

    The change in condition statute, O.C.G.A. § 34-9-104, applied to an employee's 1999 on-the-job injury, even though she received only medical benefits until January 2002, when she was unable to conti