Legal Opinion
Nationsbank, N.A. v. Gibbons
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided May 30, 1997No. A97A0442PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, Judge.
The sole issue presented by this appeal is the relative priority for enforcement purposes of a Georgia judgment and an earlier obtained but later domesticated foreign judgment against the same debtor. The trial court ruled in favor of the Georgia judgment. We granted this discretionary appeal to clarify the law concerning this issue of first impression, and we now affirm.
NationsBank, N.A. d/b/a Sovran Bank, N.A., Credit Card obtained a judgment in Virginia against Troy Gibbons in 1988. The University of Michigan obtained a judgment against Gibbons in the State Court of Fulton…
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