• West v. Village Ford-Mercury Inc.

    Publication Date: 2002-07-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph E. East, Waycross, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Matthew R. Lawrence, Valdosta, and Scott C. Crowley Crowley & Billiard, Waycross, for appellee.

    Case Number: A02A0827

    Plaintiffs' negligent entrustment theory against a car dealership failed because the dealership sold the vehicle in question before its driver collided with plaintiffs

  • Cox v. Allen

    Publication Date: 2002-07-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert E. Sherrell Jay, Sherrell, Smith & Braddy PC, Fitzgerald, for appellant.
    for defendant: Glenn Whitley Reinhardt, Whitley & Wilmot, Tifton, for appellee.

    Case Number: A02A1628

    The lack of factual evidence supporting part of an expert's hypothetical opinion goes to the opinion's weight, not its admissib

  • Automated Solutions Enters. Inc. v. Clearview Software Inc.

    Publication Date: 2002-07-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas R. Cauthorn III, Melissa M. Nohr Cauthorn & Assocs. and Vanice H. Sikes Jr., Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: T. Bart Gary and Stuart W. Gray Freeman, Mathis & Gary LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.

    Case Number: A02A0728

    No confidential relationship existed between the parties since their relationship, although close and lengthy, was merely a business relationship between two independent con

  • Moreno v. Strickland

    Publication Date: 2002-07-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph C. Parker, Sean L. Hynes Downey & Cleveland, Marietta, and Irwin W. Stolz Jr. Winburn, Lewis, Barrow & Stolz PC, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Donald W. Osborne Law Office of Allen & Assocs., Atlanta, and Michael T. Camp, Douglasville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A02A0915

    Letters between the parties' counsel provided some evidence that the parties reached a settlement agreement before plaintiff filed his injury

  • Anderson v. Amason

    Publication Date: 2002-07-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Trent B. Speckhals and Hector R. Cora Speckhals & Cora, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Matthew T. Allen, Edward A. Miller Webb, Zsckunke, Miller & Dikeman LLP, Atlanta, and John E. Stell Jr. Russell, Stell, Smith & McLocklin PC, Winder, for appellees.

    Case Number: A02A0361

    Official immunity protected a volunteer firefighter who was involved in a deadly accident with plaintiff's wife while rushing to the scene of a head-on collision in a county rescue ve

  • Ow v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-05-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edward T. Garland, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard G. Milam, District Attorney, Barnesville, and Mark S. Daniel, Assistant District Attorney, Forsyth, for appellee.

    Case Number: A02A0182

    Any error in trial court's refusal to admit audiotape for purposes of showing officer's demeanor during encounter was harmless since tape only recorded statements made after sc

  • Forest Commodity Corp. v. Lone Star Indus. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2002-05-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Roy E. Paul, Walter C. Hartridge and David M. Conner Bouhan, Williams & Levy, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert S. Glenn Jr. and Colin A. McRae Hunter, MacLean, Exley & Dunn PC, Savannah, for appellees.

    Case Number: A02A0141

    No jury question remained regarding whether plaintiff was entitled to enforce term of the contract requiring defendant to ship a minimum amount of aggregate stone through plaintiff's terminal space

  • Richards v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-04-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Harold A. Sturdivant and Michele W. Ogletree Sullivan & Sturdivant, Griffin, for appellant.
    for defendant: William T. McBroom III, District Attorney, Fayetteville, and Robert H. English, Assistant District Attorney, Griffin, for appellee.

    Case Number: A02A0150

    The defendant beat the victim in the with a hammer, causing injuries that required 25 stitches in the victim's left eye and 16 staples in his

  • Atlanta Orthopedic Surgeons v. Adams

    Publication Date: 2002-04-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Alexander H. Booth and Culley C. Carson IV Hall, Booth, Smith & Slover PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . David G. Adams, Savannah, proceeded pro se.

    Case Number: A01A2362

    The trial court erred in failing to grant dismissal of the plaintiff's appeal of his medical malpractice action since the plaintiff's actions in causing three year and four month delay in filing of

  • Craft v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-04-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James J. Anagnostakis, Douglasville, for appellant.
    for defendant: James R. Osborne, District Attorney, and Laura L. Herrin, Assistant District Attorney, Dallas, for appellee.

    Case Number: A01A2197

    Evidence that the defendant shot victim in leg with rifle supported his aggravated assault convi