BEFEKADU v. ADDIS INTERNATIONAL MONEY TRANSFER, LLC Et Al.

I respectfully dissent. I acknowledge at the outset that, in compliance with our instructions on remand, the trial court conducted a full evidentiary hearing and that we do not have a transcript of that hearing. But also in compliance with our instructions, the trial court entered an order with extensive findings of fact. As the majority correctly explains, we must assume that those findings are well supported.

But “assuming that an adequate evidentiary basis exists for the trial court’s findings does not automatically yield an affirmance of the result reached.” Sapp v. Canal Ins. Co., 288 Ga.…