Legal Opinion
Collins v. West American Insurance
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided April 4, 1988No. 76049PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Banke, Presiding Judge.
On May 22,1986, the appellants filed an action against the appellee insurance company in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, seeking to recover certain casualty insurance benefits allegedly due them as the result of a fire which occurred on May 24, 1985. On September 24, 1986, the federal court dismissed the action for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction; and on March 23, 1987, the appellants refiled their claim in the Superior Court of Walker County, invoking the renewal statute, OCGA § 9-2-61, to avoid the bar of a one-year…
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- Hornsby v. HancockCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1983
- BLUE RIDGE INSURANCE COMPANY v. MaddoxCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1987
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