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  • State v. Jourdan

    Publication Date: 2003-12-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cecilia M. Cooper, District Attorney, and Daniel P. Bibler, Assistant District Attorney, Americus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Craig S. Mathis, Leesburg, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A2423

    Defendant's mere acquiescence when a ranger removed a cigarette box from his pocket could not substitute for free consent to search the box, which contained methamphet

  • Sutton v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-10-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald B. Lowe III, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, and Jon Hope, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A1158

    Given the charge as a whole, the trial court's slip-of-the-tongue during instructions could not have confused or misled the

  • The Rental Equip. Group Inc. v. MACI LLC

    Publication Date: 2003-09-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard A. Childs, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Charles A. Gower, Columbus, and John P. Cannon, Albany, for appellees.
    Case Number: A03A1293

    The jury's award of $3.678 million in damages for promissory estoppel and/or breach of contract was within the range of damages shown by the evidence, including plaintiffs' detrimental reliance on d

  • Butler v. Warren

    Publication Date: 2003-06-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mary C. Register Spiva, Lewis, Owens & Mulherin, Jeffrey S. Vaughan Royal & Vaughan, and George L. Lewis, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Ashlee H. Vaught and Jordon D. Morrow Brannen, Searcy & Smith, Savannah, for appellees.
    Case Number: A03A0805

    There was no evidence that the defendants negligently entrusted their truck to a drunk employee on the day he drive the truck off defendants' property and killed the plaintiffs' son in a traffic acc

  • Ball v. Bright Horizons Children Ctr. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2003-03-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James A. Shea Jr., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Marvin A. Devlin and Chrisna J. Walker Devlin & Robinson PC, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A2176

    A 4-year-old's alleged injury due to exploratory sexual play with a 6-year-old classmate at daycare was not the result of any negligence on the part of the daycare c

  • Thompson v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-08-30
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: L. Elizabeth Lane, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kelly R. Burke, District Attorney, Katherine K. Lumsden and Amy E. Smith, Assistant District Attorneys, Perry, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1456

    The evidence, including defendant's own admissions that his house and shop where the crimes occurred are located in Houston County, established venue beyond a reasonable

  • Ellerbee v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-08-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brace W. Luquire and William J. Mason, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: John G. Conger, District Attorney, Melvin E. Hyde Jr., Assistant District Attorney, and Robert B. Bickerstaff II District Attorney's Office, Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A0355

    Defendant's conviction for theft by deception could not stand because there was no evidence to show that he used deceitful means or artful practice to intentionally defraud a vehicle supplier of its

  • 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

  • Edmondson v. Gilmore

    Publication Date: 2001-10-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Galen A. Mirate, Valdosta, and Melinda M. Katz, Thomasville, for appellant.
    for defendant: . George M. Saliba II, Gregory A. Voyles, Valdosta, and Charles R. Reddick, Homerville, for appellees.
    Case Number: A01A0838

    The trial court properly dismissed a Georgia couple's adoption petition which would have required relitigation of an Alabama couple's right to adopt the child in que

  • Kmart Corp. v. Morris

    Publication Date: 2001-10-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James C. Grant Alston & Bird, and Nowell D. Berreth, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jonathan C. Peters, Michael T. Carithers and Allen S. Willingham Love & Willingham LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A01A1166

    Evidence that the premises owner knew an automatic door would open towards incoming patrons under certain circumstances supported a finding that its knowledge of the danger was superior to plaint