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· 5/27/1994

Hanna v. McWilliams

Citations

  • 446 S.E.2d 741
  • 213 Ga. App. 648
  • 94 Fulton County D. Rep. 2067
  • 1994 Ga. App. LEXIS 762

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • statute of limitation barred homeowner’s suit against contractor and fireplace seller for defective fireplace installed in his home more than four years earlier
  • “[t]he discovery rule no longer applies to suits merely for real property damage; this is true whether a statute of repose exists”
  • defendant contractors were entitled to summary judgment because more than eight years had elapsed between the substantial completion of the allegedly defective fireplace and the plaintiffs suit
  • summary judgment right for any reason must be affirmed

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Birdsong, Pope, McMurray, Beasley, Cooper, Andrews, Johnson, Blackburn, Smith

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