Legal Opinion
Spyropoulos v. John Linard Estate
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided April 17, 1979No. 34592PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Hall, Justice.
This case is here on the grant of certiorari in Spyropoulos v. John Linard Estate, 148 Ga. App. 380 (251 SE2d 327) (1978). The petitioner’s case in the Fulton County Superior Court was dismissed by the trial court under Code Ann. § 81A-141 (b) for his failure to be present when the matter came on to be heard pursuant to a notice of trial which was given by publication of the court calendar in the Fulton County Daily Report. The petitioner is an out-of-state attorney who represented himself at the time of the dismissal. After learning of the dismissal, he filed a motion to set…
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