• 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

  • Wilkins v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-07-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James B. McGee III McGee & McGee, Waycross, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard E. Currie, District Attorney, Waycross, and Allen R. Knox, Assistant District Attorney, Douglas, for appellee.

    Case Number: A03A1360

    The trial court did not err in failing to remove three jurors who discussed an unrelated robbery before being swo

  • Brewster v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-07-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard A. Waller, Jr., Assistant Pub. Defender, Perry, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kelly P. Burke, District Attorney, and Katherine K. Lumsden, Assistant District Attorney, Perry, for appellee.

    Case Number: A03A0368

    Defendant's conviction for making a terroristic threat did not merge as a matter of fact with his conviction for attempted rape since separate, distinct facts supported each

  • Brown v. Garrett

    Publication Date: 2003-07-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard E. Harris, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Arthur B. Edge IV Wood, Odom & Edge PA, Newnan, for appellee.

    Case Number: A03A0822

    The court's recharge on the measure of damages was so blatantly erroneous that it raised the question of whether the plaintiff was deprived of a fair

  • Burrell v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-07-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles A. Mullinax and Stephen W. Adkins Jr. Alan Mullinax Esq., Stone Mountain, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and Jennifer Kolman, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A03A0386

    The state failed to show that the officer's initial encounter with defendant was l

  • Nalley v. Baldwin

    Publication Date: 2003-07-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wayne Grant, Kimberly W. Rabren Wayne Grant PC, and W. Scott Schulten Schulten, Ward & Turner, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Robert G. Tanner Weinberg, Wheeler, Hudgins, Gunn & Dial, John W. Campbell II Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers, Paul E. Weathington and Kara A. Hicks Allen, Weathington & Reeves, Atlanta, for appellees.

    Case Number: A03A0603

    A consent judgment entered against the sole resident defendant did not amount to a discharge from liability that would divest the trial court of personal jurisdiction over the non-resident defen

  • Wright v. Pine Hills Country Club Inc.

    Publication Date: 2003-07-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carl V. Walters, Thomas E. Pujadas Walters, Davis, Meeks & Pujadas, Ocilla, and Robert E. Sherrell Jay, Sherrell, Smith & Braddy PC, Fitzgerald, for Wright. Mary M. Katz Chambless, Higdon & Carson, Macon, for Pine Hills Country Club Inc. William P. Langdale III Langdale & Vallotton LLP, Valdosta, Craig N. Cowart Miller, Cowart, Cates & Howe LLP, Macon, for Newspaper Holdings Inc. E. B. Wilkin Jr., Perry & Walters, Albany, for State Farm.
    for defendant:

    Case Number: A03A0178; A03A0179

    The plaintiff presented no expert testimony contradicting the defendants' evidence that a newspaper reporter was not noticeably intoxicated when the defendants served her al