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  • Deljoo v. Suntrust Mortgage Inc.

    Publication Date: 2008-02-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
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    Case Number: A07A1981

    property owner and bank/mortgagee were bona fide purchasers without notice as to a recorded deed, which listed the incorrect land lot for the property in que

  • Meinhardt v. Christianson

    Publication Date: 2008-02-08
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
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    Case Number: A07A2503

    The grant of a parol license to use land, which subsequently became an irrevocable easement, was not the legal equivalent of an attempted sale, which would have triggered an existing right of first

  • Biggers v. Crook

    Publication Date: 2008-02-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
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    Case Number: S07A1786

    "The execution of a deed to secure debt by a joint tenant in real property is not such a transfer of all or a part of the grantor's interest in the property as would sever the joint tenancy

  • In re Reagan

    Publication Date: 2008-02-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
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    Case Number: S08Y0485

    An attorney, who issued more than $350K in NSF checks from her trust account and failed to account for fiduciary funds she received at a real estate closing on two properties, voluntarily surren

  • In re Taylor

    Publication Date: 2008-02-06
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
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    Case Number: S09Y0090

    An attorney who used his client's funds for personal and business expenses, but later repaid the funds to the client's satisfaction was suspended for six months and given a Review Panel repr

  • Lord v. Holland

    Publication Date: 2008-01-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
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    Case Number: S07A1480

    The plaintiff's deed was invalid, since the description set forth therein did not include a beginning point or other specifications enabling one to definitively locate the property to be con

  • Edwards v. Sewell

    Publication Date: 2008-01-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
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    Case Number: A07A2295

    Oral agreements for the sale of land are enforceable under an exception to the Statute of Frauds when one party's performance is accepted by the other party to the con

  • Lawyers Title Ins. Co. v. New Freedom Mortgage Corp.

    Publication Date: 2007-12-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey L. Mapen and Kenneth L. Millwood Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough, Atlanta, for Lawyers Title Ins. Thomas M. Barton and Aaron P. Tady Smith, Gambrell & Russell LLP, Atlanta, for New Freedom Mortgage.
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    Case Number: A07A1139, A07A1140

    The closing protection letter was not an insurance policy so as to authorize the imposition of bad faith pena

  • Friedman v. Regions Bank

    Publication Date: 2007-11-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David U. Crosby, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: John T. Mroczko White Choate & Watkins LLC, Cartersville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A07A1137

    The ; appellant failed to show that he was deprived of any protection contemplated by applicable confirmation statute-O.C.G.A. § 44-14-161-after the bank foreclosed on his property in Bartow county

  • In re Key Jr.

    Publication Date: 2007-11-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael C. Garrett Garrett & Gilliard PC, Augusta. Jenny K. Mittelman State Bar of Georgia, Atlanta. Gregory L. Fullerton, Chairperson Review Panel, Albany.
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    Case Number: S08Y0005

    An attorney, who pled guilty in federal court to felony conspiracy in connection with real estate closing fraud, voluntarily surrendered his law li