• Williams v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-12-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Whitman M. Dodge, Public Defender, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, and Christopher M. Quinn, Assistant District Attorney, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A03A0114

    Defendant was not entitled to discharge and acquittal because he failed to prove that he properly served the state with his speedy trial demand as required by O.C.G.A. § 17-

  • In the Interest of K.C.

    Publication Date: 2002-12-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin W. Drummond Hamrick, Drummond & Miller LLP, Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert A. Kunz Kunz & Assocs. PA, Douglasville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A03A0054

    The juvenile court did not abuse its discretion in admitting the child molestation victim's statements to his mother and a family nurse practitioner, since there was no evidence that he was forced

  • Bickford v. Yancey Dev. Co.

    Publication Date: 2002-11-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard W. Calhoun and Shilpa S. Masih Brock, Clay, Calhoun, Wilson & Rogers PC, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Fred D. Bentley Fr., Coleen D. Hosack Bentley, Bentley & Bentley, John K. Moore Moore, Ingram, Johnson & Steele, Sam P. Hensley Jr., Marietta, and Jeffrey H. Schneider Weissman, Nowack, Curry & Zaleon PC, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A02A2208

    A covenant requiring 2-acre lots expired by law 20 years after it was ad

  • Cooper v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-11-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wystan B. Getz Clark & Towne PC, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and Elizabeth L. Jaeger, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A02A2065

    The detective did not taint defendant's confession by allegedly telling him that he would like to tell the judge that defendant was honest and cooper

  • Sanders v. Brown

    Publication Date: 2002-10-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald L. Mize, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: John H. Moore and Amy K. Weber Moore, Ingram, Johnson & Steele, Marietta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A02A1899

    Non-privileged writings and statements authorized the jury to find that plaintiff's brother falsely and maliciously impugned plaintiff's title to 38.6 acres of

  • Schaner v. Sterling Factors Inc.

    Publication Date: 2002-10-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John R. Whelan, Stone Mountain, for appellant.
    for defendant: . John B. Levy Weinstock & Scavo PC, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A02A1215

    The trial court was not required to hold an evidentiary hearing on defendants' wilfulness where they completely failed to respond to discovery and the attempts to force them to c

  • The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. Inc. v. F. S. Assocs. LP

    Publication Date: 2002-10-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles H. Richards Jr. Richards & Dalton LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Samuel J. Crowe Toliver & Gainer, Conyers, Beth S. Reeves and Amy K. Radley Mabry, & McClelland LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A02A1678

    O.C.G.A. § 13-8-2 b did not void the indemnification provision in the parties'

  • Zachery v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-10-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert J. Storms Office of the DeKalb County Public Defender, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn R. Keyes, Solicitor General, and Heather C. Waters, Assistant Solicitor General, Decatur, for appellee.

    Case Number: A02A2005

    Defendant attempted to pull a police officer off of another man's legs while officers were trying to restrai

  • Canal Ins. Co. v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2002-08-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frank R. McKay Sartain, McKay & Crowell, Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard W. Hendrix and Michael A. Sullivan Finch, McCranie, Brown, Hendrix & Sullivan, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A02A1373

    A worker's compensation insurer could not prove that the injured employee was fully and completely compensated when he settled his third-party tort action because the insurer did not intervene in th

  • Department of Transp. v. Dupree

    Publication Date: 2002-08-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Kathleen M. Pacious, Deputy Attorney General, Loretta L. Pinkston, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Robert C. Edwards, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William D. deGolian, William C. Lanham and Clark H. McGehee Johnson & Ward, Atlanta, for appellees.

    Case Number: A02A1573

    The plaintiffs raised the issue of engineering malpractice when they claimed that the DOT's failure to include traffic control devices at a fatal intersection violated generally accepted engineering