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  • Graff v. McReynolds & Assocs. PC-Profit Sharing Plan

    Publication Date: 2001-03-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kenneth L. Levy Zachary & Seagraves PA and John W. Lawson, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Larry S. McReynolds Smith, Howard & Ajax, John D. Sours, Mark D. Gropp Wasson, Sours & Harris PC, Atlanta, Timothy K. King Carl H. Hodges 7 Assocs., Jonesboro, and James D. Windham Windham, Hughes & Sauls PC, Morrow, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1869

    The plaintiff was not entitled to summary judgment against an individual defendant in its suit on a corporate note because the plaintiff did not allege the basis for defendant's personal liab

  • Crosby v. Kendall

    Publication Date: 2001-03-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Louis K. Polonsky and Matthew D. Crosby, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Taylor W. Jones and Jenny E. Jensen Taylor W. Jones & Assocs., Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A00A2503

    Any error in the trial court's charge that an attorney acting as an escrow agent must meet the standards of the legal profession was harmless because the evidence demanded a finding that the defendi

  • Shaw v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-03-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: H. Skelton Jr., Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Rose L. Wing and Maria B. Golick, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1861

    The victim's statement that defendant grabbed her by the throat and shoved her against a wall, coupled with the officer's observation of red marks on her neck, provided probable cause to arrest defe

  • Green v. Proffitt

    Publication Date: 2001-03-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher L. Casey J. Hue Henry PC, Athens, and Benjamin F. Easterlin IV King & Spaulding, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. McGowan and James B. Franklin Franklin, Taulbee, Rushing, Bunce & Brogden, Statesboro, for appellees.
    Case Number: A00A2527

    The jury's award of $200,000 for the defendant's breach of a management contract was within the range of evidence based on the testimony of plaintiffs' ex

  • Rocha v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-03-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Justin J. Wyatt, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Timothy B. Lumpkin and Maria B. Golick, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A2410

    Prospective jurors in a sex crime trial who describe a prior sexual abuse life experience are not subject to automatic removal for

  • Smith v. Gwinnett County

    Publication Date: 2001-03-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gresham H. Harrison and Samuel H. Harrison Harrison & Harrison, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Karen G. Thomas, Deputy County Attorney, Rosanna M. Szabo, Assistant Solicitor, Kristina H. Blum and Melinda K. Wells Gwinnett County Dep't of Law, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A2498

    The state lacked jurisdiction to consider defendants' petition for writ of certiorari from their convictions in the recorder's

  • Hamilton v. Kentucky Fried Chicken of Valdosta Inc.

    Publication Date: 2001-03-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark G. Pitts and John H. Beauchamp Beauchamp & Assocs., Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: William C. Sanders Alexander & Vann, Thomasville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A2057

    Premises owner's failure to turn on its parking lot lights raised a jury issue as to whether plaintiff failed to exercise ordinary care when she tripped and fell over a raised curb in the dark, even

  • Dickerson v. Dickerson

    Publication Date: 2001-03-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kenneth L. Shigley, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard W. Hendrix Finch, McCranie, Brown & Thrash, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1992

    A prior judicial determination that petitioner was not decedent's common-law wife, precluded her from raising their alleged common-law marriage in her petition to set aside the appointment of decede

  • Lewis v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-03-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel C. Chapman III Chapman & Pope, Conyers, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tommy K. Floyd, District Attorney, and Sandra A. Graves, Assistant District Attorney, McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1866

    Defendant was not entitled to a charge on misdemeanor theft by shoplifting because the evidence showed that she committed either felony shoplifting or no of

  • Edwards v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-03-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher S. Warren, Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenneth B. Hodges III, District Attorney, and Gregory W. Edwards, Chief Assistant District Attorney, Albany, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A0211

    The trial court's slip of the tongue in charging the jury on voluntary manslaughter did not render its charge as a whole im