Legal Opinion
Vogtle v. Coleman
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided March 2, 1989No. 46074, 46076PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Hunt, Justice.
Vogtle appealed to the Court of Appeals from the jury’s award of $35,000 to Coleman for abusive litigation and from the trial court’s award of $33,254.60 in attorney fees under OCGA § 9-15-14. The Court of Appeals affirmed the award for damages, but reversed the award for attorney fees. Vogtle v. Coleman, 188 Ga. App. 159 (372 SE2d 642)(1988). This court granted certiorari on both parties’ applications.
In June 1983, Anne Bloomer and others filed suit against Vogtle alleging he had put a fence across a public access that ran across his property to a cemetery and also had allowed…
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