COURT OF APPEALS OPINIONS

Ronald Hayes vs. John Doe and Shelter Insurance Company - Concurring
02A01-9610-CV-00251
Authoring Judge: Judge Alan E. Highers
Trial Court Judge: Judge George H. Brown, Jr.

In this automobile accident case, Roland Hayes (“Plaintiff”) filed suit against John Doe (“Doe”) for damages sustained when Plaintiff was forced to drive off the road into a tree in order to avoid a head-on collision with Doe’s vehicle. Plaintiff filed a second suit against Shelter Insurance Company (“Defendant”) for Defendant’s alleged bad faith failure to pay Plaintiff’s uninsured motorist claim under the insurance contract existing between Plaintiff and Defendant. The trial court later consolidated Plaintiff’s negligence suit against Doe with Plaintiff’s bad faith suit against the Defendant. After the parties stipulated that the Defendant paid Plaintiff $11,262.89 prior to trial and after the jury returned a verdict of $2,337 in  favor of Plaintiff on Plaintiff’s negligence claim against Doe, the trial court held that Plaintiff should recover nothing from the Defendant in accordance with the jury’s verdict. Plaintiff appeals the judgment of the trial court  arguing that the trial court erred in consolidating Plaintiff’s negligence action against Doe with Plaintiff’s bad faith action against the Defendant and in refusing to grant Plaintiff an additur or a new trial. For the reasons stated hereafter, we affirm the judgment of the trial court.

Myrtle Mae Daly Brown v. Norma Jean Belton Daly
02A01-9611-CH-00275
Authoring Judge: Judge David R. Farmer
Trial Court Judge: Special Chancellor John C. Robertson

This appeal concerns a suit for partition and sale of real property. In June 1989, Myrtle Mae Daly Brown, Willie Myrle Daly Cruse, Mary Elizabeth Daly Wolfe and T. J. Ward filed suit against Norma Jean Belton Daly, Appellee, claiming that they each own an undivided one-fifth interest in property, identified as 700 Reed Hooker Road, as the children and surviving heirs of Earl J. Daly (hereinafter “Father”) who died on August 7, 1966.1 They further asserted that Appellee is the rightful owner of the remaining one-fifth interest as the widow and will beneficiary of Earl W. Daly (hereinafter “Son”), their brother, who died in August 1988. Appellee filed a counter-claim contending that Son solely owned the property at the time of his death and that as the land passed to her under the terms of his will, she is the lawful owner in fee simple. Appellee asserted that Son acquired the entire property either by prescription or by transfer of equitable title from Father to Son based on a contract to purchase. Appellee also relied upon the defense of laches.

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01A01-9610-CV-00491
01A01-9610-CV-00491
Trial Court Judge: Don R. Ash

01A01-9610-JV-00469
01A01-9610-JV-00469
Trial Court Judge: Andrew J. Shookhoff

01A01-9611-CH-00530
01A01-9611-CH-00530
Trial Court Judge: Robert S. Brandt

01A01-9612-CH-00540
01A01-9612-CH-00540
Trial Court Judge: Robert E. Burch

01A01-9702-CV-00069
01A01-9702-CV-00069
Trial Court Judge: Walter C. Kurtz

Sanders vs. Springs
03A01-9701-JV-00036

Dockery vs. State
03A01-9704-CV-00135

Jenkins v. Goddard
03A01-9704-CH-00139

Fortson vs. Fortson
03A01-9611-CV-00363

Jenkins v. Goddard
03A01-9704-CH-00139

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Scruggs vs. TR
03A01-9701-CV-00038

Spruell vs. Spruell
03A01-9704-CV-00124

Bowman v. A-best
03A01-9703-CV-00092

Bowman v. A-best
03A01-9703-CV-00092

Lindsey vs. Lindsey
01A01-9702-CV-00079
Trial Court Judge: Thomas Goodall