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SUMMERLIN v. JOHNSON

70753.

176 Ga. App. 336 (1985)

335 S.E.2d 879

SUMMERLIN v. JOHNSON.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Rehearing Denied October 4, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen W. Irving, for appellant.

Thomas C. Bordeaux, Jr., for appellee.

BIRDSONG, Presiding Judge.

This is an interlocutory appeal. Johnson is the plaintiff in this personal injury case; her attorney is Bordeaux. Jones, her attorney's partner, represented defendant Summerlin in 1979 in defense of a voluntary manslaughter or murder charge and in 1981 in defense of a driving while intoxicated (DUI) charge. The instant suit pleads punitive damages, and we recently held that evidence of prior DUIs is admissible on the issue of punitive damages...

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