Newsome v. Johnson

How courts have described this case

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• holding that trial court erred in awarding attorney fees under OCGA § 9-15-14 without making findings of fact or conclusions of law or specifying applicable statutory subsection and, thus, vacating award and remanding case
• finding service sufficient where documents left outside of door after process server verified defendant’s identity through the door, but defendant refused to open the door
• rejecting the argument that the timing of the filing of the return of service has any effect on the question of whether proper service was made

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Cosby v. Lewis
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-03-23· cited 17×
• Winstar Development, Inc. v. Suntrust Bank
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-03-23· cited 6×
• Cascade Parc Property Owners Association, Inc. v. Clark
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-03-11· cited 5×
• Lynch v. Lynch.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-06-13
• PARK HOTELS & RESORTS, INC. v. MICHAEL SMITH
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-06-08
• STEVEN J. YOUD v. JAMES L. BESKIN
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-06-15
• Wehman Newsome, Sr. v. Sonya Graham
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-08-15
• In THE INTEREST OF C. B., CHILDREN (FATHER)
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-10-13
• Michael Perry v. Daryll Peterson
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-07-31
• Kenneth S. Cooper v. Atlantic Management Services, LLC
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-12-24

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• DeRossett Enterprises, Inc. v. General Electric Capital Corp.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-09-02· cited 32×
• Vibratech, Inc. v. Frost
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-03-27· cited 29×
• Montgomery v. USS Agri-Chemical Division
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1980-07-07· cited 26×
• Stewart v. Turner
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-11-03· cited 25×
• Hickey v. Merrit
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1973-04-11· cited 23×
• Jacobson v. Garland
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-06-09· cited 14×
• MacDonald v. Harris
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-02-20· cited 13×
• Benton v. Modern Finance & Investment Co.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-10-25· cited 12×
• Meacham v. Franklin-Heard County Water Authority
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-12-28· cited 12×
• Fain v. Hutto
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-05-17· cited 9×
• Taylor v. Stapp
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1975-04-07· cited 5×
• Nesmith v. Landmark Dodge, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-02-11· cited 4×
• Russaw v. Burden
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-03-31· cited 4×
• Thomas v. Johnson
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-10-08· cited 4×