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  • In the Interest of J. S. H. & J. D. H., children

    Publication Date: 2004-04-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dorothy R. Avera, Brunswick, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Laura W. Hyman, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, and James A. Chamberlin Jr., Brunswick, for appellee. Other party representation: Donald C. Gibson, Brunswick.
    Case Number: A04A0210

    The father's failure to legitimate his child and the mother's virtual abandonment of both children supported the termination of their parental r

  • Cistola v. Daniel

    Publication Date: 2004-04-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John R. Grimes Lefkoff, Duncan, Grimes & Miller, Atlanta, for Cistola. Robert K. Woo Jr. King & Spalding, Atlanta, and Frederick E. Link Hartness & Link, Gainesville, for Daniel and others. Frank Armstrong III Stewart, Melvin & Frost, Gainesville, for Odegaard and others.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A03A2482; A03A2483

    The defendants were not entitled to a directed verdict on the plaintiff's fraud claim arising from his execution of a "corrective" quitclaim deed at the request of the defendants' real estate agent

  • Morrison Homes of Fla. Inc. v. Wade

    Publication Date: 2004-04-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: G. Phillip Beggs and Amy K. Weber Moore, Ingram, Johnson & Steele LLP, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Russell D. King and Patrick N. Millsaps Dupree, Poole & King, Marietta, for appellees. Other party representation: George L. Welborn Downey, Cleveland, Parker & Williams, Marietta.
    Case Number: A03A2289

    The damages awarded to the plaintiffs on their claims arising from the building of their home were within the range of the evidence because the contractor they hired to inspect the home provided a d

  • Nugent v. Suntrust Bank

    Publication Date: 2003-11-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Martin L. Fierman, Eatonton, for Nugent. Tilman E. Self III, Macon, for Ray. William K. Carmichael Stokes, Lazarus & Carmichael, and Thomas V. Keough, Atlanta, for Suntrust Bank.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A03A1530; A03A1531

    Defendants unambiguously agreed to be jointly and severally liable for full payment of a credit card account when they signed a "Business Card Application" in their individual cap

  • In the Interest of A. B.

    Publication Date: 2003-11-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Debra W. Hale, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and John L. Welsh II, Lawrenceville, for appellee. Other party representation: Victoria W. Weusthoff, Atlanta, Jean S. Martin and Edgar J. Perkerson III, Lawrenceville.
    Case Number: A03A1601

    Clear and convincing evidence did not support a finding that the child's deprivation was caused by a lack of proper parental control, despite the fact that the mother's boyfriend was convicted of ki

  • Lamb v. First Union Brokerage Servs. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2003-11-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Terry G. Lamb Lamb & Assocs., Duluth, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael E. Johnson and Michelle Kahoiwai Troutman Sanders LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A03A1623

    The plaintiff could not appeal the judgment in a garnishment action, despite the garnishee's assignment of his rights to the plaintiff, because the garnishee failed to file a timely application for

  • Nhan v. Wellington Square LLC

    Publication Date: 2003-11-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wendell K. Willard, and G. Watson Bryant Jr., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Scott E. Morris and Ellen W. Smith Holt, Ney, Zatcoff & Wasserman LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A1197

    A real estate sales contract was enforceable where the property's location could be adequately identified through descriptive keys furnished within the written sales agre

  • Suntrust Bank v. Peterson

    Publication Date: 2003-10-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Hubert C. Lovein Jr., Timothy K. Adams Jones, Cork & Miller LLP, Macon, R. Alex Crumbley Crumbley & Crumbley, McDonough, and John P. Harrington Smith & Harrington, Eastman, for appellant.
    for defendant: . W. McMillan Walker, Dublin, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0870

    The superior court lacked jurisdiction to hear the probate of decedent's 1997

  • Buggay v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-09-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steve C. Buggay Jr., Ambrose, proceeded pro se. Tommy K. Floyd, District Attorney, and Blair D. Mahaffey, Assistant District Attorney, McDonough, for appellee.
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    Case Number: A03A1609

    The trial court properly merged the defendant's convictions for misdemeanor fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer and fleeing or attempting to elude and sentenced him solely on the

  • Bryant v. Hoffman La Roche Inc.

    Publication Date: 2003-08-08
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard L. Brittain, Wendell R. Bird and Jonathan T. McCants Bird & Assocs., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Richard B. North Jr., Matthew B. Lerner Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough, Atlanta, and Leslie J. Bobo Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens & Cannada, Jackson, Miss., for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0661

    Once a prima facie case for design defect is established, a pharmaceutical manufacturer will be relieved from strict liability only when it demonstrates that 1 the product is properly manufactured a