· 7/9/1981
General Motors Acceptance Corp. v. Yates Motor Co.
Citations
- 283 S.E.2d 74
- 159 Ga. App. 215
- 1981 Ga. App. LEXIS 2552
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- concluding that certain claims against the debtor’s co-defendants were not so “inextricably interwoven” so as to warrant imposing the bankruptcy stay on claims against the non-debtor co-defendants
- in action for conversion, court refused to extend stay to non-debtor codefendant, since defendants were jointly and severally liable for plaintiff’s damages
- stay did not extend to joint tort-feasors
- declining to stay as to joint tortfeasors
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Judges: Sognier, Shulman, Birdsong
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