Worthwhile Investments, LLC v. Terry Higgins

Rickman, Judge.

Appellants Worthwhile Investments, LLC (“WI”), and Gary Johnson appeal the trial court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Terry Higgins and against WI and Johnson on Higgins’s claim for conversion. WI and Johnson assert that the trial court erred in holding that WI, the holder of a security deed which encumbered Higgins’s property sold at a tax sale, lost its right to excess funds that arose from the tax sale because the mortgage title reverted to Higgins pursuant to OCGA § 44-14-80 before the date on which the funds were distributed. WI and Johnson argue that the relevant…