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  • Allgood Farm LLC v. Johnson

    Publication Date: 2002-07-26
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bobby L. Cook Cooke & Connelly, Summerville, Phillip A. Bradley & Sheryl L. McCalla McKenna, Long & Aldridge LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Albert C. Palmour Jr. and Johnny R. Dennis Albert Palmour, Summerville, for appellees.
    Case Number: S02A0410

    Defendant did not have superior title in a case involving mineral rights to certain land because plaintiffs' mineral interests predated defendant's ownership of the land by nearly 100 years and defe

  • Brock v. Allen d/b/a Complete Pest Control

    Publication Date: 2002-07-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donna S. Golden, Jefferson, and Christopher L. Casey J. Hue Henry PC, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Charles E. Rogers Webb, Carlock, Copeland, Semler & Stair, Joseph R. Cruser, Jennifer M. McBath Cruser & Mitchell LLP, Philip W. Savrin and Brian K. Schumacher Freeman, Mathis & Gary LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A02A0114

    A plaintiff can maintain a professional negligence claim against an extermi

  • Owenby v. Holley

    Publication Date: 2002-07-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: W. D. Ballard Ballard, Stephenson & Waters and Eugene D. Butt, Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: Bryan M. Pulliam The Pulliam Firm, Covington, for appellees.
    Case Number: A02A0580

    Plaintiff's personal right to repurchase certain real property did not violate the rule against perpetuities because his option had to be exercised during his lif

  • Doster v. Bates

    Publication Date: 2002-07-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James D. Crowe, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Eugene M. Benton and Robert M. Malcom Benton, Preston & Malcom PC, Monroe, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A0536

    The evidence did not show that the grantor of a quitclaim deed failed to understand the deed when she execut

  • Willett v. Russell M. Stookey PC

    Publication Date: 2002-07-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald E. Dyches Jr., Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael J. Hannan III Love & Willingham, Atlanta, Inman G. Hodges Oliver, Maner & Gray, Ryburn C. Ratterree and Tracy A. O'Connell Ellis, Painter, Ratterree & Bart LLP, Savannah, for appellees.
    Case Number: A02A0817; A02A1214

    The trial court reversibly erred in allowing the defense to bolster its impeachment of plaintiff by introducing prejudicial and irrelevant details of his prior c

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  • City of Decatur v. DeKalb County

    Publication Date: 2002-07-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bryan A. Downs and Justin H. Hayes Wilson, Morton & Downs LLC, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles G. Hicks, County Attorney, Joan F. Roach, Chief Assistant County Attorney, William J. Linkous III, Assistant County Attorney, and Jeffrey L. Mann DeKalb County Law Dep't, Decatur, for appellee. Other party representation: Susan M. Pruett and Ted C. Baggett Georgia Municipal Ass'n, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A02A0490

    County government building projects are not subject to municipal zoning regulations, but are subject to other municipal regulation, such as fire safety stan

  • Brannen/Goddard Co. v. Baker

    Publication Date: 2002-07-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lewis E. Hassett, Jessica F. Pardi Morris, Manning & Martin LLP, Atlanta, and Perry A. Phillips, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . James L. Paul and Matthew J. McCoyd Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Martin, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A2395

    The Court of Appeals adopted the Supreme Court's judgment that a limited partnership's a nt to pay real estate commissions was strictly divisible for statute of limitation purposes because the

  • Carter v. Murphy

    Publication Date: 2002-07-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William A. Trotter III and Jay M. Sawilowsky, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . A. Rowland Dye, Waynesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A0021

    Shareholder's could not bring a direct action against the president of a corporation for breach of fiduciary duty, absent evidence that the president was the corporation's alte

  • Fidelity Nat'l Title Ins. Co. v. Matrix Fin. Servs. Corp.

    Publication Date: 2002-07-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: George M. Kent Jr. Shapiro Fussell Wedge Smotherman Martin, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Scott H. Michalove and Peter L. Lublin McCalla, Raymer, Padrick, Cobb, Nichols & Clark, Roswell, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A0641

    An insured suffered a loss under its title insurance policy where two security deeds were filed on the disputed property before the insured filed its deed and no court had declared the prior deeds in

  • Hall v. Lofton

    Publication Date: 2002-05-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frank C. Vann, Camilla, and Robert K. Meyer, Louisville, Ky., for appellant.
    for defendant: . David A. Kendrick Kirbo & Kendrick, Bainbridge, for appellees.
    Case Number: S02A0392

    7-year statute of limitation for action seeking to set aside a deed barred the suit which plaintiffs filed more than 49 years after the execution and recordation of deed and more than 36 years after