Legal Opinion
Zepp v. Brannen
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided January 8, 2008No. S07A1320PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BENHAM, Justice.
In March 2006, appellee Chief Judge Perry Brannen, Jr., notified the parties in a legal malpractice action filed in the Superior Court of Chatham County and assigned to Chief Judge Brannen that the lawsuit had been automatically dismissed by operation of law in January 2005 under the “five-year rule” set out in OCGA§§ 9-2-60 (b) and 9-11-41 (e), and that the six-month period within which the action could be recommenced had expired in July 2005. After Chief Judge Brannen declined the request to memorialize his determination in a written order, appellant Amy Zepp, the plaintiff…
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