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  • Wedel v. State

    Publication Date: 2014-07-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Branch, Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Herman Kilgore, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Shannon Wallace, District Attorney, Cliff Head, and Holly Varner, Assistant District Attorneys, Canton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A14A0622

    Evidence presented at the new trial hearing supported the trial court's conclusion that it did not rule on the original defense counsel's motion to withdraw until after court was convened and the de

  • Callaway v. Goodwin

    Publication Date: 2014-07-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Branch, Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Clements Clements Law Firm, Chattanooga, Tenn., for appellant.
    for defendant: Nicholas Protentis and Alisa Connell Worsham, Corsi, Scott & Knighten, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A14A0357

    The trial court erred in finding that the plaintiff lacked due diligence in serving the defe

  • Easter v. State

    Publication Date: 2014-07-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Branch, Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher Geel, Mount Pleasant, S.C., for appellant.
    for defendant: Rebecca Wright, District Attorney, and Amanda Heath District Attorney's Office, Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A14A0358

    The trial court's jury charge violated the defendant's due process rights by allowing the jury to convict him of committing aggravated assault by a method not alleged in the indic

  • Curry v. Miller

    Publication Date: 2014-06-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Branch, Elizabeth
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    Case Number: A14A0103

    Because the plaintiff failed to request that a trial transcript be included in the appellate record, the Court was required to presume that the trial court's rulings on evidentiary matters and the g

  • Reed v. Carolina Cas. Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2014-05-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Branch, Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas Cuffie, Harold Spence, Henrietta Brown The Cuffie Law Firm, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Erica Holzman and Dennis Lovell Carlock, Copeland & Stair LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A13A2270

    Issues of material fact remained as to the percentage of fault attributable to the defendant and to the decedent in the decedent's parents' wrongful death action arising from a traffic acc

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  • Roberson v. McIntosh Cnty. Sch. Dist.

    Publication Date: 2014-05-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Branch, Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Walter Adams, Brunswick, for appellant.
    for defendant: Elizabeth Bondurant, Kenton Coppage Smith Moore Leatherwood LLP, Atlanta, Steven Bristol, and Norman Lovein Hall Booth Smith & Slover PC, Brunswick, for appellees.
    Case Number: A13A2280

    Official immunity protected the defendant county school district payroll and benefits manager from suit, as she was performing a discretionary function at all times during her dealings with the plai

  • Bruce v. Georgia-Pacific LLC

    Publication Date: 2014-04-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Branch, Elizabeth
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    Case Number: A13A1874; A13A1806

    The grant of summary judgment to the defendant in the plaintiff's premises liability action was proper because the undisputed facts showed that the plaintiff had knowledge of the hazard at issue tha

  • Goodwin v. Allstate Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2014-04-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Branch, Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jonathan Wade and Jordan Jewkes Webb, Wade & Taylor LLC, Peachtree City, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Thomas Brennan, James Taylor Fain, Major, Wiley & Brennan PC, Atlanta, and Donald Foster Foster & Foster PC, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A13A2136

    The claims asserted against the insured in an underlying wrongful death suit arising from the fact that he shot and killed his estranged wife fell within his homeowners policy's exclusion for injuri

  • McLeod v. Clements

    Publication Date: 2014-04-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Branch, Elizabeth
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    Case Number: A13A1893

    There was no evidence that the appellee had any actual or constructive knowledge of a 1971 water agreement permitting the owner of the neighboring property to retrieve water from his well at no cost

  • SKC Inc. v. EMag Solutions LLC

    Publication Date: 2014-03-31
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Branch, Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Douglas Brooks, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jimmy Luke Foltz Martin Knapp LLC, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A13A2121

    The appellee's wire transfer payments containing notations regarding its account with the manufacturer-appellant constituted new promises by the appellee to pay its debt to the appellant and renewed