Publication Date: 2020-03-23
Practice Area: Contracts
Industry: Energy
Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
Judge: Judge Phipps
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stevan Miller, Lisa Richardson, (Drew Eckl & Farnham, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
for defendant: Benjamin Brewton, (Tucker Long, P.C.), Augusta, Malissa Kaufold-Wiggins, Hugh McNatt, (Balch & Bingham LLP), Atlanta, Hugh McNatt, (Balch & Bingham LLP), Vidalia, David Dial, Carol Michel, Thomas Strueber, (Weinberg Wheeler Hudgins Gunn & Dial LLC), Atlanta, for appellee. David Boone, Simone Siex, Ryals Stone, (Boone & Stone), Atlanta, John Clark, (Clark & Smith Law Firm, PC), Macon, William Stone, (William S. Stone, P.C.), Blakely, James Stone, (The Stone Law Group - Trial Lawyers, LLC), Atlanta, David Bell, (Law Office of David B. Bell), Augusta, Nicholas Moraitakis, (Moraitakis & Kushel LLP), Atlanta, James Ellison, James Wall, (Wall Ellison LLP), Augusta, James Strawinski, (Strawinski & Stout, P. C.), Atlanta, Jay O'Brien, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, Jamie Lebovitz, (Nurenberg, Paris, Heller & McCarthy), Cleveland, Steven Ashby, (Ashby Family Law Associates, P.C.), Tucker, Joseph Brown, David Caine, Lucy Tufts, (Cunningham Bounds, LLC), Mobile, Robert Byrd, Audra Byrd, John Wilkerson, (Turner, Padget, Graham & Laney P.A.), Charleston, E. Armstrong, (Law Offices of Alan Armstrong), Atlanta, David Katzman, (Katzman, Lampert & McMlune), Troy, Michael Schroder, (Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers), Atlanta, J. Mozley, (Mozley, Finlayson & Loggins), Atlanta, Mark Gropp, (Wasson Sours & Harris, P.C.), Atlanta, William Floyd, Christine Hall, Peter Van Deventer, Douglas Amster, Gene Kaskiw, Douglas McQueen, (Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, LLP), Newark, Victoria Carroll, (McMickle Kurey And Branch LLP), Alpharetta, Kenan Loomis, (Cozen O'Connor), Atlanta, for other party.
Case Number: A17A1706
Court rules that language in an easement was an indemnification obligation and not just a covenant not to sue