Radioshack Corp. v. Cascade Crossing II, LLC

The majority takes me to task for suggesting that we should independently review the text, history, and purpose of OCGA § 13-1-11 and decide for ourselves the legislative intent of the phrase “any note or other evidence of indebtedness.” According to the majority opinion, once the Court of Appeals has interpreted a statute in a particular manner for a sufficiently long period of time, this Court must defer to that construction as though it had become part of the statutory text. In support of this notion, the opinion relies heavily on *847two cases holding that where this Court has definitively…