Legal Opinion
Moody v. Dykes
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided March 16, 1998No. S97A1408, S97A1409PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Hines, Justice.
These appeals challenge a judgment for damages under OCGA § 51-12-6 in an action for the continuing trespass of burial plots. For the reasons which follow, we affirm the judgment entered on the jury’s verdict for plaintiffs and the denials of the defendants’ motions for new trial and for judgment notwithstanding the verdict.
The evidence construed in favor of the verdict showed the following. When Phyllis Dykes died on April 16, 1994, her husband, George Dykes, wanted to have her buried next to members of his family in the small rural church cemetery where three generations of…
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