Legal Opinion
Summerlin v. Johnson
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided September 9, 1985No. 70753PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Birdsong, Presiding Judge.
This is an interlocutory appeal. Johnson is the plaintiff in this personal injury case; her attorney is Bordeaux. Jones, her attorney’s partner, represented defendant Summerlin in 1979 in defense of a voluntary manslaughter or murder charge and in 1981 in defense of a driving while intoxicated (DUI) charge. The instant suit pleads punitive damages, and we recently held that evidence of prior DUIs is admissible on the issue of punitive damages. Thompson v. Moore, 174 Ga. App. 331 (329 SE2d 914). The trial court denied Summerlin’s motion to disqualify which is based on…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Clifton v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1939
- Tilley v. KingSupreme Court of Georgia · 1940
- Conley v. ArnoldSupreme Court of Georgia · 1894
- Thompson v. MooreCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1985
- Gaulden v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1851
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3Cited by25 opinions
- Tante v. HerringSupreme Court of Georgia · 1994
- Crawford W. Long Memorial Hospital of Emory University v. YerbySupreme Court of Georgia · 1988
- Huddleston v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1989
- Paul v. Smith, Gambrell & RussellCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2004
- Georgia Baptist Health Care System, Inc. v. HanafiCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2002
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