Legal Opinion
Period Homes, Ltd. v. Wallick
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided September 16, 2002No. S02G0380PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Thompson, Justice.
We granted certiorari in Wallick v. Period Homes, Ltd., 252 Ga. App. 197 (555 SE2d 863) (2001), to answer this question: Does the doctrine of judicial estoppel automatically bar the debtor from bringing a breach of contract action when the debtor did not list the cause of action as a separate asset in its Chapter 11 schedule of assets? Finding that the Court of Appeals was correct in answering this question in the negative, we affirm.
In 1991 Wallick began Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings. Among his scheduled assets were two lots located in Fulton County. As…
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