Waters v. Glynn County

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that OCGA § 13-6-11 “does not state a cause of action, but merely establishes the circumstances in which a plaintiff may recover the expenses of litigation as an additional element of his damages” (citation and punctuation omitted)
• “Where a trial court does not rule on an issue, it remains outside the jurisdiction of this Court and we cannot consider it.”
• “Where a trial court does not rule on an issue, it remains outside the jurisdiction of this Court and we cannot consider it.”
• no separate statutory waiver of sovereign immunity is required to allow recovery of litigation expenses
• OCGA § 13-6-11 does not create independent cause of action

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).