Frederica Road Holdings, LLC v. Dorothy Cuyler

• Court: Court of Appeals of Georgia
• Decided: May 17, 2017
• Docket: A17I0219
• Status: Published

Opinion

Court of Appeals of the State of Georgia

ATLANTA,____________________ May 15, 2017

The Court of Appeals hereby passes the following order:

A17I0219. FREDERICA ROAD HOLDINGS, LLC et al. v. DOROTHY CUYLER.

Frederica Road Holdings, LLC, et al., plaintiffs in the case below, have filed an application for interlocutory review of the trial court’s order granting summary judgment to defendant Dorothy Cuyler.1 The trial court’s order, however, is subject to direct appeal. Under OCGA § 9-11-56 (h), the grant of summary judgment on any issue or as to any party is reviewable by direct appeal. City of Demorest v. Town of Mt. Airy, 282 Ga. 653, 654 n.1 (653 SE2d 43) (2007); Whiddon v. Stargell, 192 Ga. App. 826, 827-28 (386 SE2d 884) (1989). We will grant a timely application for interlocutory appeal if the order complained of is subject to direct appeal and the applicant has not otherwise filed a timely notice of appeal. Spivey v. Hembree, 268 Ga. App. 485, 486 n.1 (602 SE2d 246) (2004). Accordingly, this interlocutory application is hereby GRANTED. The plaintiffs shall have ten days from the date of this order to file a notice of appeal in the trial court. If they have already filed a notice of appeal from the order at issue here, they need not file a second notice. The clerk of the trial court

1 An application for interlocutory appeal must be filed within ten days of the trial court’s entry of the certificate of immediate review. See OCGA § 5-6-34 (b). As the respondent notes in her response to this application, the certificate of immediate review was entered on April 14 and the plaintiffs filed their application on April 25, which was eleven days later. Our Court, however, was closed on Monday, April 24 in observance of a state holiday, so the application was timely filed on Tuesday, April 25. See OCGA § 1-3-1 (d) (3). is directed to include a copy of this order in the record transmitted to the Court of Appeals.

Court of Appeals of the State of Georgia Clerk’s Office, Atlanta,____________________ 05/15/2017 I certify that the above is a true extract from the minutes of the Court of Appeals of Georgia. Witness my signature and the seal of said court hereto affixed the day and year last above written.

, Clerk.