• Ades v. Werther

    Publication Date: 2002-07-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Hayes M. Dever, Michael F. O'Neill and Alison D. Arce Dever & Merlin LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter J. Ross, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A02A0458

    The trial court erred in granting summary judgment to the plaintiff based on the theory of unjust enrichment where the evidence showed the existence of a con

  • Flournoy v. Goble

    Publication Date: 2002-07-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William P. Franklin Jr. and Terri M. Yates Oliver, Maner & Gray, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ronald W. Hallman, Claxton, and Berrien L. Sutton Sutton & Assocs. PC, Homerville, for appellees.

    Case Number: A02A0436; A02A0437

    The verdict awarding the plaintiff damages for personal injuries in a medical negligence action was inconsistent with the verdict denying her husband damages for loss of conso

  • 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