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  • Empire Fire & Marine Ins. Co. v. Daniels

    Publication Date: 2006-06-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Marvin W. McGahee Brennan & Wasden, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Raymond S. Gordon Jr. and W. Jefferson Hires Gordon & Hires, Jesup, for appellees. Other party representation: William B. Johnson, Jesup, Clyde M. Urquhart, James E. Stein, St. Marys, William M. McHugh Jr. and James B. Durham Durham, McHugh & Duncan PC, Brunswick.
    Case Number: A06A0337

    The "rentee" exclusion to the commercial lines excess insurance policy at issue did not apply to the driver of a fatal 1-vehicle accident, since she drove the rental car permissibly and without payi

  • Cox v. Athens Reg'l Med. Ctr. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2006-06-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dennis T .Cathy, Edward E. Strain III, David A. Sleppy Cathey & Strain, Cornelia, Bryan A. Vroon and John W. Crongeyer Vroon & Crongeyer LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . J. Edward Allen Jr. Fortson, Bentley & Griffin PA, Athens, Emmet J. Bondurant, Michael B. Terry Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, Atlanta, and Edward D. Robertson Jr. Bartimus, Frickleton, Robertson & Obetz PC, Jefferson City, Mo., for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A0341

    The plaintiffs were not entitled to declaratory relief, since all possible rights between the parties had accrued and all possible obligations had att

  • Henson v. Tucker

    Publication Date: 2006-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John J. Capo and Larry K. Butler Butler & Capo, Jasper, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Eugene B. Chambers Jr. Roach, Hasty & Geiger, Canton, for appellees.
    Case Number: A05A1735

    The defendants did not acquire prescriptive title to the disputed 5.9 acres of land by building a driveway less than seven years before the plaintiffs filed their quiet title

  • Stinchcomb v. Wright d/b/a Ray Wright Homes Inc.

    Publication Date: 2006-03-31
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Harold T. Daniel Jr., Laurie W. Daniel, Tiffani Z. Moody, Lindsey G. Churchill and Kelli S. Lott Holland & Knight LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . John C. Rogers, Johannes S. Kingma Carlock, Copeland, Semler & Stair LLP, Atlanta, and James E. Bischoff Bischoff & White PC, Fayetteville, for appellees.
    Case Number: A05A2253

    The trial court did not err in granting summary judgment to the plaintiff builders on the defendant real estate developer's counterclaim for breach of contract because the defendant failed to presen

  • Amend v. 485 Properties

    Publication Date: 2006-03-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bruce P. Brown and Thuy N. Vu McKenna, Long & Aldridge LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jill Warner and Peter B. Glass Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05Q1462

    Real estate brokers must prove that they are the procuring cause of a sale in order to recover for the value of their services in quantum m

  • Ladzinske v. Allen

    Publication Date: 2006-01-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: J. M. Raffaur, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Scott W. Peters, Nathan M. Wheat, David H. Flint Schreeder, Wheeler & Flint LLP, Atlanta, Eugene C. Reed Jr., William J. Linkous III and Viviane H. Ernstes DeKalb County Law Dept., Decatur, for appellees.
    Case Number: S05A1866

    Plaintiff could not directly appeal the dismissal of his suit arising after the county department of public works declared a charter school to be exempt from local ordinances and granted all necessa

  • Rayburn v. Allen

    Publication Date: 2005-12-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John W. Moulton Moulton & Tarrer LLC, Conyers, for appellant.
    for defendant: R. Phillip Shinall III Alexander, Royston, Hardman & Shinall, Covington, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A2094

    The decedent's will clearly provided that his wife and son would share the expenses of maintaining the couple's home until it was sold, as long as both the wife and son resided there; however, the w

  • Brewer v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-12-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael A. Corbin, Dalton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kermit N. McManus, District Attorney, Dalton, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Julie A. Adams, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A1368

    The defendant's malice murder conviction was supported by the evidence, including forensic evidence that either of the two gunshot wounds to the victim's head, by itself, would have instantly incapa

  • Pope v. Board of Comm'rs of Fulton County

    Publication Date: 2005-11-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Timothy J. Sweeney, James P. Robertson Jr., Melana Kopman and Gretchen M. Holt Owen, Gleaton, Egan, Jones & Sweeney LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: K. Prabhaker Reddy Reddy & Silvis LLC, Richard R. Gignilliat Elarbee, Thompson, Sapp & Wilson, and James J. Park U. S. Court of Appeals, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A05A1237

    The appellants' own letter to the county board of commissioners provided some evidence supporting their removal from their positions on the county's board of tax asse

  • Dale v. Keith Built Homes Inc.

    Publication Date: 2005-09-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Manley F. Brown, John C. Clark, Philip M. Brown, Jarome E. Gautreaux O'Neal, Brown & Clark PC, Macon, Leighton B. Deming Jr., Cumming, for appellant.
    for defendant: . J. Kenneth Moorman and Nancy G. Cook Weinberg, Wheeler, Hudgins, Gunn & Dial LLC, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Matthew L. Hilt Gray, Rust, St. Amand, Moffett & Brieske LLP, John L. Kimmey III Germano, Kimmey & Cheatwood PC, James A. Meaney III Allen, Kopet & Assocs., Atlanta, Cubbedge Snow III, Thomas P. Allen III Martin & Snow, Macon, Jeffrey L. Cox, Henry L. Young Jr., Dawsonville, and Charles R. Adams III Adams & Adams LLP, Fort Valley.
    Case Number: A05A1433

    The general contractor's alleged failure to enforce its no-drinking on the job policy did not increase the risk of harm to third pe