• Hurst v Evans

    Publication Date: 2007-04-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas D. Lovett and Walter W. Kelley Kelley & Lovett, Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Bradley M. Hannan Smith, Hannan & Parker PC, Valdosta, for appellee. Other party representation: William O. Woodall, Valdosta.

    Case Number: A06A1741

    Questions of material fact remained as to whether the plaintiff's wife forged a quitclaim deed transferring his interest in 70-acres of land in Berrien county to herself without the plaintiff's know

  • Collins v. City of Summerville

    Publication Date: 2007-03-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sanford M. Hill, Summerville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Phillip E. Friduss and Kenneth D. Jones Hall, Booth, Smith & Slover PC, Atlanta, Smith & Slover, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A06A2421

    The plaintiff failed to present evidence that the city willfully or maliciously failed to warn him of a park swing's dangerous cond

  • Banks v. AJC Int'l Inc.

    Publication Date: 2007-03-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert H. Benefield Jr., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Stephen F. Dermer Magill & Atkinson LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A06A2139

    The employee was not acting within the scope of his employment when he struck a motorcyclist and killed him, while in Atlanta on business and driving a company-paid r

  • Nemeth v. RREEF Am. LLC

    Publication Date: 2007-03-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Glenn A. Loewenthal Berger, Collier & Loewenthal LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Benny C. Priest Hicks, Casey & Foster PC, Marietta, and Alisa W. Ellenburg Allen, Kopet & Assocs. PLLC, Atlanta, for appellees.

    Case Number: A06A2373

    The uneven and unstable surface of the patio where the plaintiff fell was a static defect, which plaintiff presumably knew about, because he had already successfully traversed the

  • Miami Heights LT LLC v. Home Depot USA Inc.

    Publication Date: 2007-03-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ron L. Quigley David, Matthews & Quigley PC, Robert B. Remar and Thomas J. Mew IV Rogers & Hardin LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William J. Holley II Parker, Hudson, Rainer & Dobbs, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A06A2052

    The parties' letter of intent was unenforceable, because it failed to establish an essential

  • In the Interest of D. S.

    Publication Date: 2007-03-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Justin B. Grubbs Grubbs Law Firm LLC, Griffin, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Virginia B. Fuller, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Tammy M. Griner, Griffin, for appellee.

    Case Number: A06A1992

    The clear and convincing evidence did not show that the child was without the proper care for his emotional health, since the state only presented one episode in which the child's stepfather critici

  • SRG Consulting Inc. v. Eagle Hosp. Physicians LLC

    Publication Date: 2006-12-08
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald L. Cook McGee & Oxford and Henry D. Fellows Jr. Fellows, Johnson & LaBriola LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Stephen E. Hudson Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.

    Case Number: A06A1536

    The indemnity provision of the parties' agreement applied only to costs, damages and fees, ' "which relate to the services provided" ' under the agreement and, looking at the contract as whole, it i

  • Ellis v. Fuller

    Publication Date: 2006-12-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David D. Gottlieb The Womack Law Firm PC, LaFayette, for appellant.
    for defendant: John R. Emmett, Trenton, for appellee.

    Case Number: A06A1380

    No evidence showed that the plaintiff's son was acting as his father's agent, when he leased a warehouse from the defendant in his own name and on behalf of a company in which his father had no owne

  • Tullis Devs. Inc. v. 3M Constr. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2006-12-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert J. Wilson and Ryan K. Patrick Webb, Tanner & Powell LLP, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gregory W. Lancaster, Buford, for appellees.

    Case Number: A06A1559

    Absent a transcript, the record presumably supported the trial court's grant of a declaratory judgment to the plain

  • Hinkle v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-12-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ryan H. Remsen, Cedartown, for appellant.
    for defendant: Leigh E. Patterson, District Attorney, and Suhirjahaan S. Morehead District Attorney's Office, Rome, for appellee.

    Case Number: A06A1111

    The defendant did not show that his trial counsel was deficient for failing to call four alibi or corroborating witnesses, in the absence of any evidence as to who the potential witnesses were or wh