Legal Opinion
Dowis v. Mud Slingers, Inc.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided October 24, 2005No. S05G0336PublishedCited by 60 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HINES, Justice.
This Court granted certiorari to the Court of Appeals in Dowis v. Mud Slinger Concrete, 269 Ga. App. 805 (605 SE2d 615) (2004), to consider whether the conflict of laws rule lex loci delicti should be retained in Georgia. For the reasons which follow, this Court will not abandon the traditional rule.
Johnny Edwin Dowis (“Dowis”), a Tennessee resident, was hired by a Missouri corporation, Mud Slingers, Inc. (“Mud Slingers”), whose president is Michael Clement Graves (“Graves”), to hang large sheets of precast plaster molding at a national chain hotel in Roswell, Georgia. Dowis…
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