National American Insurance v. Thornton

I respectfully dissent.

1. In their first enumeration, plaintiffs contend that there is a question of fact in regard to whether Thornton received reasonable notice of the call of the underlying case for trial, so that summary judgment on this ground was error.

As amended in 1989, USCR 8.4 (B) provides that in actions other than the first ten actions on the published trial calendar, the parties may contact the calendar clerk to obtain permission to await the call of the action for trial upon reasonable notice to counsel. See Green v. Green, 263 Ga. 551, 552, n. 1 (437 SE2d 457) (1993); see also…