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  • In re Sellers

    Publication Date: 2001-03-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Agrippa K. Long III, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Mark N. Stephen The Law Complex, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1894

    The probate court had authority to approve the creation of a trust for the benefit of an incapacitated woman after the court authorized her guardian to settle her personal injury

  • Spoon v. Johnson

    Publication Date: 2001-02-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James B. Sullivan, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Blair K. Cleveland and Richard A. Epps Jr. Martin, Snow, Grant & Napier, Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A0174

    Because the plaintiff failed to list his tort claim on his schedule of assets in his Chapter 13 bankruptcy petition, he was precluded from pursuing that claim against the defe

  • Smith v. Direct Media Co.

    Publication Date: 2001-02-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: W. Lance Smith III, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph E. East, Waycross, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A2160

    Because the defendant never gave the plaintiff any indication that he did not consider himself liable for the parties' advertising contract, the defendant was equitably estopped from relying on his

  • Rivera v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-02-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lee Sexton Lee Sexton & Associates PC, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert E. Keller, District Attorney, and Staci L. Guest, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A2086

    A drug dog's detection of cocaine in defendant's luggage and defendant's questionable behavior supported the issuance of a warrant to search defendant'

  • Woody v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-02-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael K. McKinney and Richard A. Jones Ray & McKinney, Ellijay, for appellant.
    for defendant: roger Queen, District Attorney, and William B. Britt, Assistant District Attorney, Ellijay, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A0104

    The Court of Appeals dismissed the defendant's discretionary appeal as improvidently gr

  • Bridges v. Mann

    Publication Date: 2001-02-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Graylin C. Ward, Newnan, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert E. Sherrell Jay, Sherrell, Smith & Bradley PC, Fitzgerald, for appellees.
    Case Number: A00A1858

    The plaintiff's acceptance of a check for less than the amount in dispute constituted an accord and satisfaction of his

  • Turner v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-02-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wayne L. Burnaine, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and David K. Keeton, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A2189

    The trial court properly refused to reveal the confidential informant's identity because the defendant was not charged with selling cocaine to the informant and the informant was not present during

  • Smith v. Mr. Sweeper Stores Inc.

    Publication Date: 2001-02-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John F. Sweet Clements & Sweet PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: David A. Smith Drew, Eckl & Farnham, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A00A1808

    Workers' compensation claimant had the burden of proving that her continuing problems with migraines and high blood pressure were directly related to her 7-year-old work-related i

  • Arnold v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-02-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Alan J. Baverman, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Timothy B. Lumpkin, Assistant District Attorney, Dana J. Norman, Assistant District Attorney, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A2375

    Evidence that defendant threatened to shoot one of the arresting officers supported his convi for felony obstru

  • Gunsby v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-02-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles R. Floyd Jr., Peachtree City, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, and Lynda S. Engel, Assistant District Attorney, LaGrange, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A2418

    The trial court was not required to sever an armed robbery charge involving a convenience store from a similar robbery charge involving a fast-food restaurant because the crimes were committed a day