Legal Opinion
CRANE COMPOSITES, INC. v. WAYNE FARMS, LLC Et Al.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided November 17, 2014No. S14A1680PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Thompson, Chief Justice.
The question for decision in this case is whether OCGA § 9-11-68, a tort reform, fee-shifting statute, can be applied to a negligence action in which the injury occurred prior to the effective date of the statute, but in which the action was filed after that date. We answer this question affirmatively and, in so doing, we overrule L. P. Gas Industrial Equip. Co. v. Burch, 306 Ga. App. 156 (701 SE2d 602) (2010).
Wayne Farms owned and operated a chicken processing plant in Oakwood, Georgia. A fire broke out at the plant on May 19, 2003. Roughly three years later, Wayne…
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- Enger v. ErwinSupreme Court of Georgia · 1980
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