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  • Allgood Farm LLC v. Johnson

    Publication Date: 2002-07-26
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bobby L. Cook Cooke & Connelly, Summerville, Phillip A. Bradley & Sheryl L. McCalla McKenna, Long & Aldridge LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Albert C. Palmour Jr. and Johnny R. Dennis Albert Palmour, Summerville, for appellees.
    Case Number: S02A0410

    Defendant did not have superior title in a case involving mineral rights to certain land because plaintiffs' mineral interests predated defendant's ownership of the land by nearly 100 years and defe

  • Golden Peanut Co. v. Bass

    Publication Date: 2002-05-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jay D. Bennett, Candace N. Smith, Paul J. Kaplan Alston & Bird, Emmet J. Bondurant, Michael B. Terry and Frank M. Lowrey IV Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Griffin B. Bell, Benjamin F. Easterlin IV, Michael C. Russ, John P. Brumbaugh King & Spalding, Atlanta, Whitney G. Saunders Saunders, Babineau & Brewbaker LLC, Suffolk, Va., and Wayne S. Weaver Southwestern Peanut Shellers Assoc., Stephenville, Texas, for appellees. Amicus appellant: Evans J. Plowden Jr., Dawn G. Benson, and Charles K. Wainwright II Watson, Spence, Lowe & Chambless LLP, Albany.
    Case Number: S01G1157

    Contract clause relating to the sale of additional peanuts at a higher than contracted price was not void for violation of federa

  • Young v. Williams

    Publication Date: 2002-03-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas S. Chambless, Dawn G. Benson and Charles K. Wainright II Watson, Spence, Lowe & Chambless LLP, Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Frank J. Klosik Jr. and Robert J. McCune Greer, Klosik & Daugherty, Atlanta, for appellee. Neutral Amicus Representation: Antoinette D. Johnson Smolar & Assocs., Atlanta. Amicus Appellant: H. Andrew Owen Jr., Roger E. Harris Owen, Gleaton, Egan, Jones & Sweeney LLP, David A. Cook, William T. Clark, Atlanta, Temple Sellers, Decatur, and Marilyn J. Allen, Marietta.
    Case Number: S01G0589

    The 2-year statute of limitation for medical malpractice claims does not provide for the commencement of the limitation period upon the termination of a health care provider's treatment of a p

  • Durden v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-03-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Anthony S. Carter, Monroe, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Alan A. Cook, Assistant District Attorney, Covington, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Jennifer S. Gill, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S02A0169

    The defendant was not entitled to a mistrial after a witness spontaneously remarked that he took a lie detector test since the witness did not apprise the jury of the results of the test and the tri

  • In re Drucker

    Publication Date: 2001-12-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William P. Smith III, General Counsel, and Jenny K. Mittelman State Bar of Georgia, Atlanta. George L. Kimel, Norcross. Anthony B. Askew, Chairperson Review Panel, Atlanta.
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    Case Number: S02Y0192

    Attorney suspended for six months based on his admitted failure to inform his client that he collected funds on the client's behalf, his conversion of the funds to his own use and his failure to res

  • Wilson v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-12-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven L. Sparger Jackson & Schiavone, Savannah, and Charles C. Grile, Pooler, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, Melanie Higgins, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Wylencia H. Monroe, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A1315

    Defendant acquiesced in an in-chambers conference outside of his presence in which the trial court ruled on the state's motion in l

  • Mangum v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-12-07
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bruce S. Harvey and David S. West, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, George W. K. Snyder Jr., Senior Assistant District Attorney, Elizabeth A. Baker, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Adam M. Hames, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A0592

    The trial court improperly limited defendant's cross-examination of several of the state's juvenile witnesses as to whether they had pending adjudications that would affect their credib

  • Mitchell v. Mitchell

    Publication Date: 2001-12-07
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: C. Robert Melton Haygood, Lynch, Harris & Melton LLP, Forsyth, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Karen K. Martin Martin & Martin, Barnesville, for appellees.
    Case Number: S01A1177

    The trial court chose the most equitable solution to a conflict involving five children and five lots when the trial court awarded defendants the property upon which their house was located, even th

  • Daniley a/k/a Daniely v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-11-16
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert S. McPhail David & McPhail LLC, Butler, for appellant.
    for defendant: John G. Conger, District Attorney, Mark C. Post, Assistant District Attorney, Columbus, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Madonna M. Heinemeyer, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A1606

    Defendant shot and killed the victim after the victim threw a beer bottle a

  • Henry County Record Inc. v. Community Newspaper Holdings Inc.

    Publication Date: 2001-10-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: R. Alex Crumbley Crumbley & Crumbley, McDonough, for Henry County Record. David E. Hudson and N. Shannon G. Lanier Hull, Towill, Norman, Barrett & Salley, Augusta, for Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. Michael A. O'Quinn, David P. Brenskelle and Gary K. Morris, McDonough, for Buttrill and others.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S01A1271; Sl01A1273

    The county's newly designated legal organ failed to meet the paid circulation requirements of O.C.G.A. § 9-13-14