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  • Staton v. State Farm Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2009-12-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David F. Guldenschuh, Rome, for appellant.
    for defendant: John A. Owens, J. Clinton Sumner Jr. Magruder & Sumner, Rome, Cubbedge Snow III and Thomas P. Allen III Martin Snow LLP, Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: A08A1606

    The plaintiff was not a named insured and was not entitled to stack the UM coverage in his employer's insurance policies covering two vehicles that were not involved in the underlying car acc

  • Wesby v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-11-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter D. Johnson, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Rebecca A. Wright, District Attorney, and Madonna M. Little, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A2233

    The defendant's mother, as head of the household, had authority to consent to a search of his

  • Heiman v. Mayfield

    Publication Date: 2009-11-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Anthony L. Cochran Chilivis, Cochran, Larkins & Bever, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: James E. Voyles and Mark F. Milhollin The Voyles Milhollin Law Firm, Kennesaw, Paul W. Burke Drew Eckl & Farnham, Peter Q. Bassett, Kerry K. Vatzakas Alston & Bird, Dan F. Laney III and Kimberly L. Myers Rogers & Hardin LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A2253

    Exculpatory clauses in a trust instrument are not effective to relieve a trustee of liability for breach of trust committed in bad faith, intentionally or with reckless indifference to the interest

  • Brown v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-11-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey W. Frazier, Roswell, and Kenneth R. Croy, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Gregory L. Epstein and John R. Edwards, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A1796

    The officer, who told the defendant to remove his hands from his pockets, lacked articulable suspicion of criminal act

  • Farr v. Rice

    Publication Date: 2009-10-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kathleen E. Sullivan Raley & Sandifer PC, Atlanta, and Charles R. Floyd Jr., Peachtree City, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Gary D. Stokes and Robert B. Campos Lamberth, Cifelli, Stokes & Stout PA, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A2016

    The defendants failed to identify any possible defense to their liability on two promissory notes or their failure to reimburse the plaintiff/guarantor for her settlement on the notes with the l

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  • Gunn v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-10-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jason W. Swindle Drummond & Swindle and Maryellen Simmons, Assistant Chief Circuit Public Defender, Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, Anne C. Allen and Jeffery W. Hunt, Assistant District Attorneys, Carrollton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A1595

    The trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting evidence of the defendant's prior sexual abuse of three other children to show his intent or state of mind, because the evidence was suffici

  • In re petition of Morgan Marks for the Adoption of G. M. M.

    Publication Date: 2009-10-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James J. Hopkins, Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Doris C. Orleck, Newnan, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A1897

    Insufficient evidence supported a finding that the mother abandoned her child under O.C.G.A. § 19-18-1

  • Lee v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-10-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter D. Johnson, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Rebecca A. Wright, District Attorney, and Madonna M. Little, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A2097

    The exception to the abolition of the inconsistent verdict rule did not apply, absent a showing of how the appellate record made the jury's reasoning transp

  • Hill v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-10-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jimmonique R. Rodgers Georgia Public Defender Standards Council, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, and Stephany J. Luttrell, Assistant District Attorney, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A1935

    The trial court erred in refusing to charge on the defense of acc

  • In re Hudson

    Publication Date: 2009-10-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas E. Cauthorn III and Leslie A. Dean Cauthorn & Nohr PC, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles F. Reeves Jr., C. Fred Reeves, Chandler R. Bridges, Marietta, and Glen W. Clark Howard, Clark & Mercer LLC, Douglasville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A1602

    The probate court erred in considering the conservator's bank statements and receipts as substantive evi because the contested documents were not tendered and admitted into evi