FORD v. UNIROYAL GOODRICH TIRE CO., 238 Ga. App. 533 (1999)

521 S.E.2d 198

FORD et al. v. UNIROYAL GOODRICH TIRE CO. et al. (two cases.) SM-143, SM-144

A97A2505, A97A2506.Court of Appeals of Georgia.
DECIDED: JUNE 11, 1999

SMITH, Judge.

In Ford v. Uniroyal Goodrich Tire Co., 270 Ga. 730
(514 S.E.2d 201) (1999), the Supreme Court reversed the judgments of this court affirming the trial court’s grant of appellees’ motions to transfer the cases from Fulton County. Ford v. Uniroyal Goodrich Tire Co., 231 Ga. App. 11 (497 S.E.2d 596) (1998). Accordingly, our judgments in those cases are vacated, the judgment of the Supreme Court is made the judgment of this court, and the trial court’s orders are reversed.

Judgments reversed. McMurray, P.J., Pope, P.J.,[1] Andrews, Ruffin, and Eldridge, JJ., and Senior Appellate Judge Harold R. Banke,[2] concur.

[1] For A. W. Birdsong, Jr., P.J., who is deceased.

[2] For Dorothy T. Beasley, P.J., who has resigned.

DECIDED JUNE 11, 1999.
Venue; motion to transfer. Fulton State Court. Before Judge Goger.

Smolar, Roseman, Brantley Seifter, Yehuda Smolar, G. Grant Brantley, James I. Seifter, Antoinette D. Johnson, Gregory, Christy Maniklal, Hardy Gregory, Jr., for appellants.

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Love Willingham, Daryll Love, Allen S. Willingham, Robert P. Monyak, for appellees.