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  • Quality Foods Inc. v. Smithberg

    Publication Date: 2007-10-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John M. Hamrick, Gregory J. Digel Holland & Knight, Atlanta, for Quality Foods and Darby Bank & Trust Co. Richard J. Harris Brennan, Harris & Rominger, Savannah, for Johan and Gisela Lindeman. N. Harvey Weitz, Michael L. Edwards, Anthony R. Casella Weiner, Shearouse, Weitz, Greenberg & Shaw LLP, for Smithberg and others. Timothy R. Walmsley Hunter, MacLean, Exley & Dunn PC, Savannah, for the Paxton Building Condominium Assoc. Inc.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A07A1352; A07A1353

    Lender's exception in condominium's declaration applied to the sale of condominium Unit Two and removed the sale from a family trust to a third party from the Declaration's requirement that any tran

  • Benson-Jones v. Sysco Food Servs. of Atlanta LLC

    Publication Date: 2007-10-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Hezekiah Sistruck Jr. Cochran, Cherry, Givens, Smith & Sistruck PC and Warren N. Sams III The Sams Law Firm, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael J. Goldman Hawkins & Parnell, Robert B. Wedge and Jason A. Cooper Shapiro, Fussell, Wedge & Martin LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A07A1971

    The defendant did not violate state and federal regulations intended to protect minors by failing to obtain a certificate of the decedent's true age before permitting him to work at the warehouse, s

  • Lincoln Elec. Co. v. Gaither

    Publication Date: 2007-07-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Randall J. Butterfield King & Spalding, Jennifer G. Cooper Gambrell & Stolz LLP, Anthony L. Cochran Chilivis, Cochran, Larkins & Bever, Atlanta, C. Wilson DuBose Winkler & DuBose, Madison, and Mary Parsons Fulkerson, Feder & Wollam LLP, Houston,Texas, for appellant.
    for defendant: . John D. Steel Matthews & Steel, Atlanta, Brian H. Barr Levin, Papantonio, Thomas, Mitchell, Echsner & Proctor PA, Pensacola, Fla., Grant Kaiser The Kaiser Firm, John E. Williams Jr. Williams Baily Law Firm, Houston, Texas, and Walter Umphrey Provost Umphrey Law Firm, Beaumont, Texas, for appellees. Other party representation: James L. Hollis Balch & Bingham LLP, Charles B. Marsh, Kenneth M. Barre Swift, Currie, McGhee & Heirs, John M. Hawkins Weinberg, Wheeler, Hudgins, Gunn & Dial, Robert B. Hocutt Nall & Miller, Robert C. Buck Childers, Buck & Schlueter LLP, Stevan A. Miller Drew Eckl & Farnham LLP, Charles J. Cole Owen, Gleaton, Egan, Jones & Sweeney LLP, Andrew M. Gibson Alston & Bird, Atlanta, C. Ronald Ellington, Athens, and Mikal Watts The Watts Law Firm LLP, Corpus Christi, Texas.
    Case Number: A07A0177

    The claims of over 350 plaintiffs in ten law suits against defendant electric companies' for their alleged injures as the result of exposure to welding fumes were improperly joined under O.C.G.A. §

  • COMCAST Corp. v. Warren

    Publication Date: 2007-07-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Tommy T. Holland, John L. McKinley Jr. and John D. Hadden Carter & Ansley, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . John F. Daugherty, William L. Swank II and Alina A. Krivitsky Greer, Klosik, Daugherty & Swank PC, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: William D. Strickland Temple, Strickland, Counts & Dinges.
    Case Number: A07A0505

    The allegations of the complaint, which stood admitted as a result of the defendant's default, sufficiently create defendant's liability for punitive damages in any a

  • Lincoln Elec. Co. v. Gaither

    Publication Date: 2007-07-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Randall J. Butterfield King & Spalding, Jennifer G. Cooper Gambrell & Stolz LLP, Anthony L. Cochran Chilivis, Cochran, Larkins & Bever, Atlanta, C. Wilson DuBose Winkler & DuBose, Madison, and Mary Parsons Fulkerson, Feder & Wollam LLP, Houston, Texas, for appellant.
    for defendant: . John D. Steel Matthews & Steel, Atlanta, Brian H. Barr Levin, Papantonio, Thomas, Mitchell, Echsner & Proctor PA, Pensacola, Fla., Grant Kaiser The Kaiser Firm, John E. Williams Jr. Williams Baily Law Firm, Houston, Texas, and Walter Umphrey Provost Umphrey Law Firm, Beaumont, Texas, for appellees. Other party representation: James L. Hollis Balch & Bingham LLP, Charles B. Marsh, Kenneth M. Barre Swift, Currie, McGhee & Heirs, John M. Hawkins Weinberg, Wheeler, Hudgins, Gunn & Dial, Robert B. Hocutt Nall & Miller, Robert C. Buck Childers, Buck & Schlueter LLP, Stevan A. Miller Drew Eckl & Farnham LLP, Charles J. Cole Owen, Gleaton, Egan, Jones & Sweeney LLP, Andrew M. Gibson Alston & Bird, Atlanta, C. Ronald Ellington, Athens, and Mikal Watts The Watts Law Firm LLP, Corpus Christi, Texas.
    Case Number: A07A0177

    The claims of over 350 plaintiffs in ten law suits against defendant electric companies' for their alleged injures as the result of exposure to welding fumes were improperly joined under O.C.G.A. §

  • Kay-Lex Co. v. Essex Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2007-07-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin J. Bahr Mason Bahr LLP, Atlanta, for Kay-Lex Co. Gerald L. Mize Jr., Stephen L. Bracy Alston & Bird, Frederick M Valz III, Ambadas B. Joshi Carlock, Copeland, Semler & Stair LLP, Hezekiah Sistrunk Jr. and Kenneth R. Lester Cochran, Cherry, Givens, Smith & Sistrunk PC, Atlanta, for Essex Ins. Co. and others. Robert B. Wedge and Jason A. Cooper Shapiro Fussell, Wedge & Martin LLP, Atlanta, for Sysco Food Servs. of Atlanta LLC. Other party representation: Michael J. Goldman Hawkins & Parnell, and Bruce A. Taylor Jr. Drew, Eckl & Farnham, Atlanta.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A07A0791; A07A0792

    Appellants' notice to their insurers 12 months after fatal forklift accident occurred was untimely, since the policies clearly required notice as soon as practicable after the occurrence resulting i

  • Simon Property Group v. Benson

    Publication Date: 2007-07-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rebecca M. Lamberth, John L. Coalson Jr., Colin K. Kelly, Jay D. Bennett Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, and Charles C. Clay, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . John F. Salter Jr., Roy E. Barnes The Barnes Law Group LLC, Marietta, and Gary J. Toman Nations, Toman, Nutter & McKnight LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A05A2256

    The Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act DUPA, OCGA § 44-12-190 et seq., did not apply to the plaintiffs' claims for damages resulting from dormancy fees and expiration dates associated with shoppi

  • In the Interest of H. S.

    Publication Date: 2007-06-29
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Julie E. Snow Whitehurst, Blackburn, Warren & Kelley, Thomasville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Kenneth D. Steele Alston & Bird, Atlanta, Andrew W. Clark, Thomasville, and Bonnie R. Spears, Moultrie, for appellee.
    Case Number: A07A0810

    Clear and convincing evidence did not show that the 9-year-old child's father was

  • Larmon v. CCR Enters.

    Publication Date: 2007-06-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas F. Lindsay, Rossville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Dennis D. Watson Watson, Dana & Gottlieb LLP, LaFayette, for appellee. Other party representation: James H. Phillips McCamy, Phillips, Tuggle & Fordham, Dalton.
    Case Number: A07A0111

    The trial court did not err in ruling that the bus driver allegedly responsible for the plaintiff's injuries was an independent contractor, since his employment contract gave him the discretion in t

  • Golden v. Vickery

    Publication Date: 2007-05-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William M. Akin, Cartersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Donald J. Grate and Theodore Freeman Freeman, Mathis & Gary, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: John M. DeFoor II, Mark S. Gannon Savell & Williams LLP, Atlanta, and Bobby L. Cook, Summerville.
    Case Number: A07A0669

    The owner or operator of a high-voltage line has discretion under the High-voltage Safety Act, O.C.G.A. § 46-3-33, to guard against danger from accidental contract by either ' "deenergizing and grou