• Anatek Inc. v. CSX Realty Dev. LLC

    Publication Date: 2000-05-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMurray, William Leroy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin R. Armbruster Cushing, Morris, Armbruster & Jones, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher W. Phillips Hunter, Maclean, Exley & Dunn PC, Savannah, for appellee.

    Case Number: A00A0562

    The plaintiff's contract with the defendant's lessee for improvements to the leased premises did not subject the defendant's property to an enforceable lien because there was no contractual relation

  • Green v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-05-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard K. Murray, Dalton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kermit N. McManus, District Attorney, and Stephen E. Spencer, Assistant District Attorney, Dalton, for appellee.

    Case Number: A99A2306

    The state negated any inference that a not-guilty verdict would make it worse for the v by telling the jury that their decision would not change what happened to the v

  • Jones v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-05-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rodney S. Zell Zell & Zell PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Clinton K. Rucker and Elizabeth A. Baker, Assistant District Attorneys, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A00A0089

    The defendant did not show that he was prejudiced by the state's failure to make his custodial statement available to him before

  • Dunn v. Royal Maccabees Life Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2000-05-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMurray, William Leroy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen H. Debaun, Tucker, for appellant.
    for defendant: Samuel W. Wethern Doffermyre, Shields, Canfield, Knowles & Devine, Sherri M. Graves and Nancy K. Deming Troutman Sanders, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A00A0702

    Since the insured did not designate his deceased partner as the owner of his life insurance policy, the deceased partner's wife was not entitled to the proceeds when the insured

  • Helmley v. Liberty County, Ga.

    Publication Date: 2000-05-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Karen D. Barr and Arvo H. Henifin Barr, Warner, Lloyd & Henifin, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Luther K. Davis, James N. Osteen Jones, Osteen, Jones & Arnold and Leon M. Braun Jr., Hinesville, for appellees.

    Case Number: A99A0534

    Plaintiffs' claim that the defendant's 20-year-old business violates a ant prohibiting the use of his property for commercial purposes is barred by the 2-year statute of limitation for breach o

  • Holmes v. Achor Ctr. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2000-05-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: George O. Lawson Jr. and Alton Hornsby II Lawson & Thornton, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Milton B. Satcher III Jennings, Sparwath & Satcher LLP, Marietta, and Anna C. Palazzolo Long, Weinberg, Ansley & Wheeler LLP, Atlanta, for appellees. Other party representation: Maureen M. Middleton Freeman, Mathis & Gary, Overtis H. Brantley Office of County Attorney and Rolesia D.B. Dancy, Associate City Attorney, Atlanta.

    Case Number: A99A1924

    It was reasonable for the defendants to believe that the plaintiff was criminally trespassing on their property because the plaintiff had been banned from the property and the injunction which gave

  • Russell v. Superior K-9 Serv. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2000-05-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen V. Kern Kitchens, Kelley & Gaynes PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Henry D. Fellows Jr. Fellows, Johnson & La Briola LLP, Atlanta, for appellees. Other party representation: Glenn A. Loewenthal Loewenthal & Jackson LLP, Atlanta.

    Case Number: A99A2442

    Evidence that the plaintiff volunteered to let her employer's guard dog out of his pen raised a jury question as to whether she assumed the risk that the dog would attac

  • Day v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-04-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas E. Stewart, McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tommy K. Floyd, District Attorney, and Sandra A. Graves, Assistant District Attorney, McDonough, for appellee.

    Case Number: A99A2344

    Defendant was not entitled to a new trial, even though the trial court charged the entire statute on possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, since the court limited the jury's del

  • Jackson v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-04-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paul Fryer, Bainbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Brown Moseley, District Attorney, and Anthony E. Paulsen III, Assistant District Attorney, Bainbridge, for appellee.

    Case Number: A99A2259

    Even if the defendant's a violated his Fourth Amendment rights, he was not entitled to a new trial because he did not claim that his conviction rested upon evidence seized as a result of his a

  • Bullard v. Elgin Fed. Savs. & Loan Ass'n

    Publication Date: 2000-04-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMurray, William Leroy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael P. Froman and Jeffrey L. Sakas, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Abraham A. Sharony Culbreth & Sharony, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: John L. Taylor Jr. Vincent, Chorey, Taylor & Feil, and Jeffrey W. Kelley Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy, Atlanta.

    Case Number: A00A0789

    Evidence that the defendant approved the co-defendant's decision to foreclose the plaintiff's mortgage created a genuine issue as to whether the defendant was vicariously libel for the allegedly wro