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  • Shields v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-12-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Vicki E. Carter, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenneth W. Mauldin, District Attorney, and Anna E. Watkins, Assistant District Attorney, Athens, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A1312

    Defendant was not entitled to mistrial after trial court allowed the victim to testify, despite the state's failure to provide defendant with her current address and phone number where defendant nev

  • Bantz v. Allstate Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2003-11-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: George P. Donaldson III Donaldson, Bell & Pickett, and Lewis R. Lamb, Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Marvin D. Dikeman Webb, Zsckunke, Moller & Dikeman LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A1650

    The trial court abused its discretion in refusing to allow plaintiffs to question a witness about the fact that he changed his story to arson investigators after learning the results of his polygraph

  • Georgia Farm Bureau Mut. Ins. Co. v. Croley

    Publication Date: 2003-11-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Duke R. Groover Groover & Childs, Macon, and Charles W. Byrd, Perry, for appellant.
    for defendant: John T. Croley Jr., Fitzgerald, Gary C. Christy and Preyesh K. Maniklal Gregory, Christy & Maniklal, Cordele, for appellee. Other party representation: Terry A. Dillard Dillard, Bower & Crowley, Waycross.
    Case Number: A03A0876

    The defendant was entitled to summary judgment on its former attorney's breach of contract claim because the oral agreement between the parties had no stated dur

  • Liberty Ins. Corp. v. Ferguson

    Publication Date: 2003-11-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Burke B. Johnson Carter & Ansley, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: H. Emily George George, Bartles & Wallach, Forest Park, Gino L. Montoya Mabry & McClelland LLP, Craig R. White Donahue, Hoey & Skedsvold LLC, Scott P. Archer and J. Daran Burns Drew, Eckl & Farnham, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Todd S. Colarusso George, Bartles & Wallach, Forest Park, and Robert M. Darroch Mabry & McClelland LLP, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A03A0950

    Since O.C.G.A. § 33-24-45 regulates the cancellation of automobile insurance policies, the plaintiff could not rely on O.C.G.A. § 33-24-7 or cases construing that statute to retrospectively void a p

  • Fortson v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-10-17
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edward D. Tolley and Ronald E. Houser Cook, Noell, Tolley, Bates & Michael LLP, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert W. Lavender, District Attorney, Hartwell, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Jason C. Fisher, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S03A1169

    Causing a defendant to unnecessarily use a peremptory strike on a juror that should have been excused for cause is per se harmful

  • Champion v. Dodson

    Publication Date: 2003-10-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paul W. Burke Drew, Eckl & Farnham LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael A. Anderson Horton, Maddax & Anderson, Chattanooga, Tenn., for appellees.
    Case Number: A03A1949

    The plaintiff failed to prove damages for lost furniture and equipment because her testimony as to the purchase price was not sufficient to establish the fair market

  • Shuler v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-09-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Douglas W. McDonald Jr. McDonald & Cody Law Offices, Cornelia, for appellant.
    for defendant: Norman S. Gunter, District Attorney, and Kerry I. Banister, Assistant District Attorney, Cleveland, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A1392

    Defendant's constitutional right to a speedy trial did ttached until the state filed an accusation charging him with DUI since the evidence supported the trial court's finding that defendant wa

  • Wisham v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-08-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert R. McLendon IV, Blakely, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Brown Moseley, District Attorney, Bainbridge, and Ronald R. Parker, Assistant District Attorney, Camilla, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A1423

    Proof of legal title to the damaged vehicle is not necessary to sustain a conviction for arson in the second d

  • Roddy v. Tanner Med. Ctr. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2003-07-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard A. Diment and Charles S. Conerly, Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Richard G. Tisinger Jr. and Kenneth B. Crawford Tisinger, Tisinger, Vance & Greer PC, Carrollton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0664

    Plaintiffs did not show that hospital personnel reckless or intentionally failed to locate fetal remains in the wife's clothing following her miscar

  • McCondichie v. Groover, Henry Superior Court.

    Publication Date: 2003-07-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: G. Robert Oliver and Anne M. Zavala-Moushey Oliver & Winkle PC, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: William A. White Smith, Welch & Brittain, McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0222

    The parties' engaged in unlawful conduct when they agreed that defendant would use his employee discount to purchase stock for the plaintiff during an initial public off