Legal Opinion
Cotton v. Surrency
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided January 9, 2006No. A05A1679PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ANDREWS, Presiding Judge.
Thomas E. Cotton filed suit on August 10, 2004, against Robert E. Surrency, PC., and individually, alleging breach of employment contract, breach of fiduciary duty, and fraud arising from Surrency’s representation of him in a criminal matter in 1999. Cotton, pro se, appeals from the trial court’s grant on December 2, 2004, of Surrency’s motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim after Cotton had voluntarily dismissed his complaint on November 29, 2004.
Pursuant to OCGA § 9-11-41 (a) (1), subject to limitations not applicable here, “an action may be dismissed by the…
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