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  • Villegas v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-02-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter R. Hill, Alpharetta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Garry T. Moss, District Attorney, and Allen D. Morris, Assistant District Attorney, Canton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A0481

    Defendant waived his right to assert additional objections to the trial court's charge on entra

  • Kent v. A. O. White Jr., Consulting Eng'rs PC

    Publication Date: 2002-01-29
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher J. McFadden, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: William B. Hardegree and Gregory S. Ellington Hatcher, Stubbs, Land, Hollis & Rothschild, Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A0756

    An $250,000 punitive damage award to an expert witness who was not paid for services rendered to an attorney was excessive in light of the expert's actual da

  • Trent v. Franco

    Publication Date: 2002-01-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William W. Gardner, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gary M. Cooper and William Z. Meadows Cooper & Makarenko, Duluth, for appellees.
    Case Number: A01A2102

    O.C.G.A. § 9-11-4 d 3 requires service of process to a minor defendant with additional service on a parent or legal gua

  • Hightower v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-01-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William A. Fears, Jackson, for appellant.
    for defendant: William T. McBroom III, District Attorney, and James E. Hardin, Assistant District Attorney, Fayetteville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A2497

    The record failed to show that defendant validly waived his constitutional right to co

  • Garrett v. Fleet Fin. Inc. of Ga.

    Publication Date: 2001-11-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William A. Wehunt, Stockbridge, for Garrett. John G. Parker Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, and Eric J. Taylor Hunton & Williams, Atlanta, for Fleet Finance. James M. Poe, Lisa N. Higgins, James L. Creasy III Drew, Eckl & Farnham LLP, and Sean W. Conley, Atlanta, for Baggarly. Other party representation: Dana L. Jackel Awtrey & Parker, Larry W. Ramsey Jr., Charles W. Lane Lane & Lane, Marietta, and R. Wayne Bond Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice PLLC, Atlanta.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A01A2018; A01A2019

    The 3-year statute of repose for claims based on recission under the Truth in Lending Act barred plaintiff's suit to set aside a second mortgage on his property more than four years after he closed

  • Bohannon v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-10-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David H. Jones King & King & Jones PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: T. Joseph Campbell, District Attorney, and Donald S. Smith, Assistant District Attorney, Calhoun, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A2079

    Defendant lacked standing to challenge the search of a friend's too

  • Martin v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-08-31
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael A. Zoffmann, Smyrna, and Jay L. Palmer, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Dana J. Norman and Irvan A. Pearlberg, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A1878

    Defendant could not complain about the stipulated admission of unauthenticated crime lab reports in the absence of an allegation of fraud or mi

  • Hollifield v. Monte Vista Biblical Gardens Inc.

    Publication Date: 2001-08-31
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: J. Wayne Pierce Pierce & Young, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: F. Carlton King Jr. King & Croft, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A01A1329

    Defendant acted in bad faith by knowingly building structures that encroached on the plaintiffs' property and admittedly violating the county's building code by building the structures too close to

  • Hixon v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-08-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian M. House, Ringgold, for appellant.
    for defendant: Herbert E. Franklin Jr., District Attorney, Lafayette, and Leonard C. Gregor Jr., Assistant District Attorney, Ringgold, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A1267

    Evidence that def ordered her 13-year-old daughter to have sexual intercourse with one man and intentionally encouraged her daughter to continue a sexual relationship with another supported de

  • Hardwick v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-07-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Margot S. Roberts, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert E. Keller, District Attorney, and Erman J. Tanjuatco, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A1732

    O.C.G.A. § 15-12-133 provided defendant's exclusive and absolute right to question prospective jurors about their imparti