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  • Hurston v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-03-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Allen M. Trapp Jr., Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, and Jeffery W. Hunt, Assistant District Attorney, Carrollton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A1971

    Jurors' unauthorized visits to the accident scene did not contribute to the defendant's conviction in light of the jurors' unanimous affidavits stating that the visits had no effect upon their ve

  • McDilda v. Norman W. Fries Inc.

    Publication Date: 2006-03-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph D. McGovern Dubberly & McGovern, Glennville, for appellant.
    for defendant: William E. Callaway Jr. and William J. Neville Jr. Callaway, Neville & Brinson, Claxton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A2086

    The undisputed evidence showed that the boundary line between plaintiff and defendant's property was marked in white paint with the knowledge and consent of the adjoining owners for 30 years before

  • Blackwood v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-03-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William H. Clerke IV, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, Anne C. Allen, Assistant District Attorney, Carrollton, and Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A2120

    Evidence that the defendant helped to weigh out 32.64 grams of methamphetamine and placed it in bags for purchase by an undercover GBI agent supported his methamphetamine trafficking convi

  • Haggins v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-03-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Orin L. Alexis, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, and Isabel M. Pauley, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A2327

    The evidence supported the defendant's convictions for aggravated assault and firearms offenses, despite the victim's recantation of his identification of the defendant as his shooter at

  • Pearson b/n/f Pearson v. Tippmann Pneumatics Inc.

    Publication Date: 2006-03-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael J. Warshauer, Steven R. Thornton and Lyle G. Warshauer Warshauer, Thomas, Thornton & Rogers PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Jonathan R. Friedman McKenna, Long & Aldridge LLP, Atlanta, and Mark J. Hill, Philadelphia, Pa.
    Case Number: A05A1581

    Trial court's jury charge and recharge on proximate charge were unlikely to have confused or misled the jury into believing that only the last action nearest in time to the plaintiff's injury could

  • Lee v. Thomason

    Publication Date: 2006-03-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nicolle G. Holt, County Attorney, Willie J. Lovett Jr., Rory K. Starkey and Marina K. Duncan County Attorney's Office, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Allen L. Broughton Broughton & Fernandez and Brian C. McCarthy, Roswell, for appellees.
    Case Number: A05A1945

    Loss of consortium damages are not absolutely dependant on proof of a loss or impairment of sexual rela

  • Cohen v. Allstate Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2006-02-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert A. Moss Moss & Rothenberg, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Melynee Leftridge Sharon W. Ware & Assocs., Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Charis L. Johnson Law Office of Allen & Assoc., Atlanta.
    Case Number: A05A1986

    A nominal judgment against the defendant in an injury suit was a condition precedent to the plaintiffs' ability to recover against their UM ca

  • Freeman v. Wheeler

    Publication Date: 2006-02-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jerry B. Hatcher, Alpharetta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas E. Greer Tisinger, Tisinger, Vance & Greer PC, Carrollton, for appellees. Other party representation: Deborah S. Moses and Brittany L. Tuggle Hall, Booth, Smith & Slover PC, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A05A1632

    The trial court properly granted summary judgment to the defendants on the plaintiff's claim for damages to his "peace, happiness and feelings," since there was no evidence that the defendants' acti

  • Bentley v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-02-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Seven A. Cook, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Ann B. Harris and Dana J. Norman, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A2058

    The trial court properly excluded evidence that the aggravated assault and child cruelty victim threatened to blow up his school with dynamite approximately three months prior to the crimes at

  • Bowman v. Century Funding Ltd.

    Publication Date: 2006-02-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William H. Arroyo and Paul G. Wersant William H. Arroyo & Assocs., Tucker, for appellant.
    for defendant: . James C. Joedecke Jr. Anderson, Tate & Mahaffey PC and Donald W. Osborne White, Schuerman, Rhodes & Burson LLC, Lawrenceville, for appellees.
    Case Number: A05A2080

    A factual question remained as to whether decedent's affidavit provided actual or constructive notice of the plaintiff's claimed interest in certain real pro