Thakkar v. St. Ives Country Club

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a person who cut and removed timber from a golf course was liable to the owners of the course as a matter of law under the GTCCS, regardless how the person subsequently disposed of the timber, i.e., by using, selling, or discarding it
• trial court’s allowance of lay and expert witness testimony proper where witnesses were disclosed prior to trial and no evidence of deliberate concealment
• trial court’s allowance of lay and expert witness testimony proper where witnesses were disclosed prior to trial and no evidence of deliberate concealment
• “[The] exclusion of probative trial evidence is not an appropriate remedy for curing an alleged discovery omission.”
• trial court did not err in receiving evidence and awarding damages based on cost of restoration of lost trees
• unauthorized removal of trees from plaintiff’s land justified award of damages and attorney fees under OCGA § 51-12-51; “[t]o what specific ‘use’ the trees are then put after the unauthorized removal” was irrelevant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).