• The Rental Equip. Group Inc. v. MACI LLC

    Publication Date: 2003-09-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard A. Childs, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Charles A. Gower, Columbus, and John P. Cannon, Albany, for appellees.

    Case Number: A03A1293

    The jury's award of $3.678 million in damages for promissory estoppel and/or breach of contract was within the range of damages shown by the evidence, including plaintiffs' detrimental reliance on d

  • State v. Allen

    Publication Date: 2003-08-29
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James D. McDade, District Attorney, Christopher R. Johnson and Pamela D. Brophy, Douglasville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Frank C. Winn Winn, Price & Winn, Douglasville, and Bert W. Cohen, Marietta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A03A1548, A03A1549

    Nothing in O.C.G.A. § 17-7-53.1 allows a quashed accusation to trigger the prosecutor

  • Lovelace v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-08-29
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John G. Wolinski, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, and Sarah L. Stimac, Assistant District Attorney, LaGrange, for appellee.

    Case Number: A03A1228

    The defendant failed to show harm from the trial court's order requiring him to wear a "stun" belt, which was not visible to th

  • Richardson v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-08-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gary P. Bunch, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, Anne C. Allen, Assistant District Attorney, and Kevin W. Durmmond Hamrick, Drummond & Miller LLP, Carrollton, for appellee.

    Case Number: A02A1103

    The Court of Appeals adopted the Supreme Court's ruling that application of Georgia's rape-shield statute to evidence about the victim's non-sexual relationship with her ex-boyfriend violated the de

  • Bonner v. Brunson

    Publication Date: 2003-08-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Walter C. hartridge, Edgar P. Williams and David M. Conner Bouhan, Williams & Levy, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: David H. Johnson McCorkle, Pedigo & Johnson LLP, Savannah, for appellee.

    Case Number: A03A1514

    The individual defendant was not personally liable for his limited liability company's alleged debt because there was no evidence that he abused the form of the LLC by commingling or confusing LLC b

  • Weiss v. Old Republic Nat'l Title Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2003-07-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John G. Parker, Brady S. McFalla Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, and Nicole L. Day Greenberg, Traurig LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William B. Brown and Jacqueline Marcucci Heyman & Sizemore LLC, Atlanta, for appellees.

    Case Number: A03A0247

    The plaintiffs did not waive their right to assert a claim for breach of ty of title by not filing a written objection pursuant to the terms of the sales contract because the provisions of the

  • Miller v. Miller

    Publication Date: 2003-07-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Howard G. Slade and Jason B. Thompson Slade & Assocs., Fayetteville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Allen W. Bodiford and John L. Watson Jr., Stockbridge, for appellees.

    Case Number: A03A0644

    Plaintiff was not entitled to specific performance of an indefinite oral agreement to make a will devising plaintiff certain real pro

  • Arnold v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-07-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: W. Keith Barkber Allen & Barber PC, Statesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Samuel W. Lengen and Amy H. McChesney, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A03A1599

    Because the trial court reduced the defendant's conviction for second degree criminal property damage to misdemeanor criminal trespass, his argument that the state failed to prove damages of more tha

  • Saxton v. Davis

    Publication Date: 2003-07-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Eugene D. Butt, Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenneth J. Lander McNalley, Edwards, Bailey & Lander, Monroe, and A. Cullen Hammond Hammond, Carter & Watson, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A03A0072

    The trial court properly dismissed the plaintiff's injury suit because he failed to exercise the greatest possible due diligence in serving the defendant outside of the statute of limitation after l

  • Allen v. Edge

    Publication Date: 2003-07-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ralph M. Allen, Atlanta, proceeded pro se. W. Ashley Hawkins, Forsyth, for appellee.
    for defendant:

    Case Number: A03A0666

    The administrator of an e can seek repayment of property taxes he advanced, despite his interest in the property as an heir of the e