OGLETHORPE POWER CORP. v. SHERIFF

A93A1609.

210 Ga. App. 299 (1993)

436 S.E.2d 14

OGLETHORPE POWER CORPORATION v. SHERIFF.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Reconsideration Denied September 17, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas F. Choyce, for appellant.

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, Michael L. Chapman, for appellee.


BIRDSONG, Presiding Judge.

This suit arises from claims of trespass and conversion by intentional damage to certain trees averred to have occurred when Oglethorpe Power Corporation exceeded a right-of-way for the erection of an electrical power line.

The jury awarded plaintiff $3,783.29 compensatory damages and $25,492.87 attorney fees for conversion; $20,000 attorney fees for bad faith, being stubbornly litigious, or causing the plaintiff unnecessary trouble...

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