Legal Opinion
Battle v. Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided November 3, 2005No. A05A0949PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Barnes, Judge.
Le’Roy Battle sued Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Company and Georgia Underwriting Association (GUA), seeking payment for fire damage to his house. The insurance companies answered and moved for summary judgment, which the trial court granted. The court held that Battle was judicially estopped from recovering from his insurers because he failed to list the house as an asset in his successful 1995 Chapter 7 bankruptcy petition. For the reasons that follow, we affirm the trial court.
On January 31, 2002, a fire damaged Battle’s Columbus house while he was away. An investigator with…
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