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  • Davidson v. Callaway

    Publication Date: 2002-02-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William J. Mason, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: B. Seth Harp Jr. and Stacy C. Bondurant Harp & Assocs. PC, Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A1431

    Appellant failed to follow discretionary appeal procedures following the award of attorneys' fees to her ex-husband in a domestic relations

  • Lee v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-02-15
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brooks S. Franklin and Cynthia G. Morris Franklin & Hubbard, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Raymond J. Burby IV, Christopher M. Quinn, Assistant District Attorneys, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Adam M. Hames, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A1284

    The defendant shot the unarmed victim seven times as the victim was attempting to steal hi

  • Nolan Road West Ltd. v. PNC Realty Holding Corp. of Ga.

    Publication Date: 2002-02-15
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James L. Paul and Matthew J. McCoyd Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White & Williams, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lewis E. Hassett, Jessica F. Pardi Morris, Manning & Martin, J. Marbury Rainer, Charles W. Lyons Parker, Hudson, Rainer & Dobbs, Atlanta, and Perry A. Phillips, Marietta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S01G0766

    Limited partners cannot be treated as copartners for purposes of Georgia's constitutional venue provision because limited partners are not personally liable for partnership obliga

  • Melcher v. Melcher

    Publication Date: 2002-02-15
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Eric B. Ripper Dietrick, Evans, Scholz & Williams, Atlanta, and Beverly L. Cohen, Roswell, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas R. Campbell Jr., William A. Wall, Jeff C. Hamling and Patrick J. Gibbs, Roswell, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A1325

    The husband reasonably believed that no final hearing on his divorce action was imminent where the parties had engaged in settlement negotiations for several months and the wife's attorney sent a le

  • City of Bremen v. Regions Bank

    Publication Date: 2002-02-15
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bobby L. Cook Cook & Connelly, Summerville, and Andrew J. Whalen III Mullins, Whalen & Westbury, Griffin, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Michael D. McRae and Robert T. Monroe Shaw, Maddox, Graham, Monk & Boling LLP, Cedartown, for appellees. Amicus appellees: C. Scott Greene and Heather E. Harper Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S01A1732

    The city could not avoid its responsibility under a valid loan and tax anticipation note based on its use and management of the loan proceeds in the months following the note's exec

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  • Green v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-01-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patrick G. Longhi, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Christopher M. Quinn, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A1689

    The defendant beat two victims with a gun and other objects, then shot one of the victims, drove him to a nearby high school and shot the wounded man at least five more

  • Long v. Waggoner

    Publication Date: 2002-01-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald C. Evans Jr. Vaughan & Evans, Cartersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: William Neel Jr. Neel Law Firm, Cartersville, for appellees.
    Case Number: S01A1638

    There was no evidence the granddaughter exerted undue influence over her grandmother to obtain a one-half interest in 80 acres of pasture land because the evidence showed that the grandmother was a

  • Rich v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-01-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jerry W. Moncus, Dalton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kermit N. McManus, District Attorney, Dalton, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A1807

    Defendant stabbed his wife in the back of her arm, cut her repeatedly with a kitchen knife and slashed her twin sister's t

  • Parris v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-12-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jerry W. Moncus, Dalton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kermit N. McManus, District Attorney, Dalton, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Ruth M. Bebko, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A1760

    Defendant fired a rifle numerous times at the front porch of a trailer on which several people, including the murder victim, were sta

  • Scott v. South Trust Asset Management Co.

    Publication Date: 2001-12-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael O. Crain Crain & Davis LLC, and Lee P. Morgan Morgan & Morgan, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: . James W. Hass Jr., Laurin M. McSwain Bloodsworth & McSwain, Alex W. Smith, Edward K. Smith Smith, Gambrel & Russell, Sister M. Florence Our Lady of Perpetual Help Home, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Grace E. Lewis, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, Abe Wilkerson Elks Aidmore Children's Center, Conyers, and Edward W. Gadrix Jr., Roswell.
    Case Number: S01A1373

    The probate court properly reformed as trust that violated the rule against perpetu