• Empire Fire and Marine Ins. Co. v. Driskell

    Publication Date: 2003-11-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William E. Gray II and Lloyd B. Hendrick Jr. Gray, Hendrick & Edenfield LLP, Atlanta for Empire Fire & Marine Ins. Co. Herald J. Alexander Jr. The Alexander Law Firm, and Charles A. Mathis Jr., Atlanta, for Driskell.
    for defendant:

    Case Number: A03A0852; A03A0853

    The plaintiff's were not entitled to damages for breach of a duty to settle in an underlying injury action that grossly exceeded the applicable limits of the insured's p

  • Castillo v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-11-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lawrence Lewis, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and Elizabeth L. Jaeger, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A03A1473

    Testing of representative samples is sufficient to support a cocaine trafficking conviction for the entire a

  • Bridges v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-11-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Chester L. Cannon Jr. Smith & Cannon, Vidalia, for appellant.
    for defendant: Timothy G. Vaughn, District Attorney, and Russell P. Spivey, Assistant District Attorney, Eastman, for appellee.

    Case Number: A03A0866

    The defendant failed to lay a proper foundation for the introduction of a police report involving an alleged drug raid that he claimed was the basis for an illegal

  • Edwards v. Sabat

    Publication Date: 2003-11-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Clifford H. Hardwick, Roswell, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Kevin L. Ward and Nimesh B. Patel Schulten, Ward & Turner, Atlanta, for appellees.

    Case Number: A03A1316

    Evidence that the plaintiff tailgated the defendant, cut her off and ran her vehicle into a ditch supported the jury's finding that defendant was entitled to damages on her counterclaim for as

  • Mon Ami Int'l Inc. v. Gale

    Publication Date: 2003-11-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John L. Monroe Jr. and F. Valerie Rusk Ford & Harrison LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Albert A. Chapar Jr., Conyers, for appellees

    Case Number: A03A1162

    An employment contract was ambiguous as to whether the decedent had a 10-percent ownership or an unexercised option to purchase a 10-percent ownership in the defending co

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  • Bogard v. Inter-State Assurance Co.

    Publication Date: 2003-11-14
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Craig G. Harley, William Lacy Jr. Chitwood & Harley, Atlanta, Mark S. Goldman, Theodore A. Swanson and T. Brent Jordan Weinstein, Kitchenoff, Scarlato & Goldman LTD, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas M. Byrne and Joseph A. White Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan LLP, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Stephanie Benig, Joel H. Bernstein, Christopher J. Keller Goodkind, Labaton, Rudoff & Sucharow LLP, New York, NY, and Daniel Karon Gallagher, Sharp, Fulton & Norman, Cleveland, Oh.

    Case Number: A03A0992

    The existence of a written life insurance contract between the parties precluded plaintiff's unjust enrichment c

  • McGhee v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-11-14
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert J. Storms Office of the DeKalb County Pub. Defender, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Kristin M. Childers, Assistant District Attorney, and Rosemary W. Brewer DeKalb County District Attorney's Office, Decatur, for appellee.

    Case Number: A03A0827

    The victim testified that the defendant began molesting her when she was 11 or 12 year

  • ATC Healthcare Serv. Inc. v. Adams

    Publication Date: 2003-11-14
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher A. Whitlock and Kelly M. Clark Webb, Carlock, Semler & Stair, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Larry N. Hollington, Augusta, for appellee. Other party representation: Lee Southwell State Bd. of Workers Compensation, Atlanta.

    Case Number: A03A1043

    The ALJ erred in awarding the claimant workers' compensation benefits for injuries she sustained when she fell at a restaurant on a scheduled lunch break during a 3-day training

  • Perry v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-11-07
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert R. McLendon IV, Blakely, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Brown Moseley, District Attorney, Bainbridge, and Ronald R. Parker, Assistant District Attorney, Camilla, for appellee.

    Case Number: A03A1606

    The trial court abused its discretion in admitting evidence of a non-violent sexual encounter between the defendant and a minor as a similar transaction because it did not show a predilection to com

  • Receivables Purchasing Co. Inc. v. R&R Directional Drilling LLC

    Publication Date: 2003-10-31
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephanie R. Lindsey The Lindsey Firm, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Preston W. Smith and Thomas H. Manning Shaw, Maddox, Graham, Monk & Boling LLP, Rome, for appellee.

    Case Number: A03A1577

    The erroneous listing of the debtor's name rendered a UCC-1 financing statement seriously misleading within the meaning of OCGA § 11-9-