• Plantation Pipeline Co. v. Royal Indemnity Co.

    Publication Date: 2000-09-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard A. Horder, Thomas K. Bick, Edmund M. Kneisel Kilpatrick Stockton LLP and Edward T. Floyd, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael J. Athans and Corliss L. Worford Lord, Bissell & Brook, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A00A0690

    The plaintiff's insurer had no duty to defend and indemnify the plaintiff for damage caused by petroleum leaks when the plaintiff failed to notify the insurer about the leaks for 25

  • Bennett v. Cotton

    Publication Date: 2000-08-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
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    Case Number: A00A0091

    Plaintiff's tort claims arising out of her husband's construction contract with defen were barred by the prior arbitration proceeding between her husband and the defen

  • Colden v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-08-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Herbert Shafer, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, for appellee.

    Case Number: A00A0569

    Judgment on state's forfeiture complaint was void because trial court never lifted its indefinite stay of proceedings or gave defendants notice and an opportunity to be heard on the issue of lifting

  • Turner v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-08-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert W. Lenzer, Thomas P. Lenzer Lenzer & Lenzer, Norcross, and Davis S. Lipscomb, Duluth, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lydia J. Sartain, District Attorney, and Jennifer C. Bagwell, Assistant District Attorney, Gainesville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A00A0870

    A defendant who denies committing a crime cannot claim accident as an affirmative de

  • Vildibill v. Palmer Johnson Savannah Inc.

    Publication Date: 2000-08-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John R. Strother III and Matthew M. Bush Duffy, Feemster & Lewis, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Timothy D. Roberts Oliver, Maner & Gray, Savannah, for appellee.

    Case Number: A00A0344

    Since plaintiff tried to postpone any settl and defendant agreed to hold the settl offer open, a jury question remains as to whether the parties rescinded their settl agre

  • Rowe v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-08-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Elizabeth C. Calhoun, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, and Charles R. Sheppard, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A00A0841

    Defense counsel employed proper trial strategy in eliciting unfavorable testimony about the defendant's nickname before the state could introduce this evi

  • Burruss v. Ferdinand

    Publication Date: 2000-08-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Earl A. Davidson Giddens, Davidson & Mitchell, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William R. Turner and Rodney T. Floyd Office of the County Attorney, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A00A0803

    Plaintiff was not entitled to notice or to intervene in foreclosure action because her deed to the property was not recordable or rec

  • Willard v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-08-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John T. Martin and Frank K. Martin The Martin Firm, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, and Jeffrey W. Hunt, Assistant District Attorney, Carrollton, for appellee.

    Case Number: A00A0206

    The state's grant of immunity to accomplice removed any right he had to invoke the privilege against self-incrimination when the state called him to testify against the defen

  • Plunkett v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-08-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Eric A. Ballinger Conrad & Abernathy, Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Philip C. Smith, District Attorney, and Sandra A. Partidge, Assistant District Attorney, Cumming, for appellee.

    Case Number: A00A0103

    Since evidence that defendant set five separate fires in her sister's house did not support a finding that she was guilty of only third degree arson, the trial court properly refused to give her re

  • White v. Jones

    Publication Date: 2000-08-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John C. Wise, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . James D. Taylor III Claxton & Claxton LLC, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A00A0759

    Plaintiffs who failed to serve defendant for more than three months after she made a limited appearance to assert inadequate service did not exercise due diligence in serving her outside the limitat