Legal Opinion
Habel v. Tavormina
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided March 29, 2004No. A03A2190PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MlKELL, Judge.
In this breach of contract and conversion case, Lucy Habel appeals the trial court’s grant of a directed verdict on her conversion and punitive damages claims. Habel also argues that the jury’s verdict was against the weight of the evidence and that the defendants waived their right to assert an affirmative defense. For the reasons set forth below, we affirm.
Evidence adduced at trial shows that 81-year-old Habel was the president of We Haul It All, Inc. (“We Haul I”), a waste hauling business owned and operated by her grandson Eric Thomas. Because of Thomas’s problems with…
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- Staley v. PHELAN FINANCE CORPORATIONCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1967
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