Bickerstaff Real Estate Management, LLC v. Hanners

Blackburn, Presiding Judge.

In this action arising from the sale of commercial real estate, plaintiffs Bickerstaff Real Estate Management, LLC and Bickerstaff Imports, Inc. (collectively “Bickerstaff’) sued defendants Earl Han-ners, Jr., Michael Johnson, and Southern Eagle Partners I, LLC (collectively “defendants”), alleging breach of contract on the part of Hanners and fraud on the part of all defendants. Defendants successfully moved for summary judgment as to all claims, and Bickerstaff now appeals, arguing that the trial court erred in finding that the doctrine of merger by deed barred…