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  • Kleber v. City of Atlanta

    Publication Date: 2008-05-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
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    Case Number: A07A2160

    The statute of limitation did not bar plaintiffs' continuing nuisance claims against the city of Atlanta and a railway, even though they filed suit seven years after they became aware of the pr

  • Kleber v. City of Atlanta

    Publication Date: 2008-04-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
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    Case Number: A07A2160

    The statute of limitation did not bar plaintiffs' continuing nuisance claims against the city of Atlanta and a railway, even though they filed suit seven years after they became aware of the pr

  • Walls v. Moreland Altobelli Assocs. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2008-03-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
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    Case Number: A07A1717

    Some evidence supported the plaintiffs' claim that the defendant improperly cut trees on their property, arising from construction on the plaintiffs' property in connection with the building

  • Mason v. Home Depot U.S.A. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2008-03-21
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
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    Case Number: S07A1486

    O.C.G.A. § 24-9-67.1 f of Georgia Tort Reform Act of 2005 "TRA" is not unconstitutional as a delegation of legislative authority and the denial of due pr

  • Bragg v. Oxford Constr. Co.

    Publication Date: 2008-02-29
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
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    Case Number: A08A0080; A08A0081

    The acceptance doctrine applicable to independent contractors barred the plaintiffs' recovery against the defendant for injuries allegedly caused by the defendant's work under contract for t

  • Melican v. Parker

    Publication Date: 2008-02-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
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    Case Number: S08A0006

    Genuine factual issues remained as to the testator's lack of testamentary capacity and the issue of undue influence when the testator executed codicils to his

  • Davenport v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-02-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
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    Case Number: S08A0175

    The trial court's slip-of-the-tongue during one pattern charge did not amount to reversible error, given the charge as a whole and the fact that the entire written charge went out with the

  • Blige v. Blige

    Publication Date: 2008-02-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
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    Case Number: S07F1817

    The husband actively hid the fact that he had $150K in cash in his possession when the parties signed their antenuptial agre

  • Slone v. Myers

    Publication Date: 2007-10-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Debra Slone and Sonja Ebron, St. Petersburg, Fla., proceeded pro se. Ned Blumenthal, Laura S. Morris Weissman, Nowack, Curry & Wilco PC, Atlanta, Martin C. Jones, Allen W. Bodiford, Stockbridge, and William S. Dominy, Decatur, for appellees.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A07A1089; A07A1406; A07A2274

    The trial court erred in awarding attorneys' fees under O.C.G.A. § 9-15-14 b in the absence of evidentiary he

  • Hendry v. Wells

    Publication Date: 2007-07-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Vincent T. Gresham, Atlanta, and Christopher J. McFadden, Decatur, for Hendry and others. Thomas T. Tate Andersen, Tate, Mahaffey & McGarity PC, Lawrenceville, James K. Quillian, Merle R. Arnold III and William M. Droze Troutman Sanders for Wells and others.
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    Case Number: A07A0059; A07A0060

    A limited partner may bring a claim against a partne where the primary injury alleged is to the individual plaintiffs, rather than the partne