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  • Smith v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-09-29
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven A. Cook, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Laura J. Murphree, Maria B. Golick and Dana J. Norman, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1015

    Police officer could not stop defendant based on defendant's parking at an apartment complex late at night and driving away when the officer approache

  • Sellers v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-09-29
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Elaine T. McGruder, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Mary Beth Westmoreland, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, George W. K. Snyder Jr., Senior Assistant Attorneys General, Wylencia H. Monroe, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1303

    Any error in the charge on accident and self-defense was harmless since the jury rejected both defenses when it convicted defendant for voluntary manslau

  • Weber Air Conditioning Inc. v. Triple-R Pooler Inc.

    Publication Date: 2000-09-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stanley E. Harris Jr. Karsman, Brooks & Callaway PC, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: David H. Johnson and Amy E. Edgy McCorkle, Pedigo & Johnson LLP, Savannah, for appellees.
    Case Number: A00A0942

    Subcontractor that did not comply with notice of foreclosure requirements could not enforce its materialman's

  • Kline v. Atlanta Gas Light Co.

    Publication Date: 2000-09-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas W. Talbot Talbot & Ladson, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: John J. Makowski and Jon C. Wolfe Chambless, Higdon & Carson, Macon, for appellee. Other party representation: Helen Williams, Macon, proceeded pro se.
    Case Number: A00A1721

    Plaintiff had no remedy against payee for negotiating a mistakenly-issued money order that was regular on its

  • Leal v. Hobbs

    Publication Date: 2000-09-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James T. McDonald Jr., Julia M.B. Haffke and Amy Greenstein Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Carol Deloach Shapiro, Fussell, Wedge, Smotherman, Martin & Price LLP, Walter H. Beckham III Kirwan, Parks, Chesin & Remar PC, Atlanta, for appellees. Other party representation: Vincent D. Hyman City of Atlanta and Kim E. Anderson Alston & Bird, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A00A1205

    Plaintiff failed to show that student intern was negligent in administering intravenous tions to her husband under the direct supervision of an ambulance para

  • Lewis v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-08-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Herbert Adams Jr., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Atlanta, Doris Williams-McNeely, Special Assistant Attorney General, and Charles M. Richards, Assistant Attorney General, Tucker, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0820

    Defendant failed to show how he was prejudiced by the introduction of a summary of financial docu

  • West v. Briggs & Stratton Corp.

    Publication Date: 2000-08-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Alan Y. Salzman Montlick & Assocs. PC, Atlanta, and Robert P. Killian Lissner, Killian, Cunningham & Boyd, Brunswick, for appellant.
    for defendant: Mark S. Vanderbroek, David C. Vigilante and Thomas E. Reilly Troutman Sanders LLP, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Robert S. Reeves, Swainsboro, and Eric A. Brewton Shivers & Assocs., Alpharetta.
    Case Number: A00A0407

    A jury question remains as to whether owner relinquished control over premises where plaintiff was injured so as to relieve owner of liab

  • Williams v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-08-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Douglas N. Fox Peevy & Lancaster PC, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, Dawn H. Taylor and Frank Ilardi, Assistant District Attorneys, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0382

    Prosecutor's improper question regarding defendant's exercise of his right to remain silent was harmless error, since the witness did not respond and the court gave curative instruc

  • Lombardo v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-08-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Graham McKinnon IV Fox, Chandler, Homans, Hicks & McKinnon, Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lydia J. Sartain, District Attorney, and Deborah R. Mitchell, Assistant District Attorney, Gainesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0575

    Trial court had no authority to modify defendant's sentence after the expiration of the term of court in which it was entered or before defendant's probationary period

  • Kilburn v. Young

    Publication Date: 2000-08-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Henry D. Fellows Jr., Brad S. Kalter and Eric A. Kane Fellows, Johnson & La Briola LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Deborah Ebel and John L. Watkins Long, Aldridge & Norman, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0255

    Trial court should have ordered the stockholder to join his corporation as a to his derivative suit instead of dismissing the suit for failure to join an indispensable