Fuller Enterprises, Inc. v. Hardin Const. Group, Inc., A92A1723
Decision Date | 26 October 1992 |
Docket Number | No. A92A1723,A92A1723 |
Citation | 424 S.E.2d 311,206 Ga.App. 8 |
Parties | FULLER ENTERPRISES, INC. v. HARDIN CONSTRUCTION GROUP, INC. |
Court | Georgia Court of Appeals |
Sonja L. Salo, Atlanta, for appellant.
Smith & Fleming, Robert O. Fleming, Jr., Atlanta, for appellee.
Fuller Enterprises, Inc. (plaintiff), a South Carolina corporation, filed a petition against Hardin Construction Group, Inc. (defendant), seeking entry of a judgment on an arbitration award entered in favor of plaintiff and against defendant. More specifically, plaintiff alleged that it entered into a contract with defendant to provide defendant with labor, materials and equipment on a construction project in Stone Mountain, Georgia; that the parties resolved a dispute under the construction contract pursuant to a contractual provision providing for binding arbitration; that the arbitration award has not been vacated or modified and that the arbitration award directs defendant to pay plaintiff "$29,115.00 on its claims and $1,050.32 for administrative fees and expenses of the American Arbitration Association."
The parties filed opposing motions for summary judgment and evidentiary material. Defendant also filed a motion to dismiss, arguing that the plaintiff's petition is subject to dismissal for failure to comply with the registration and bonding requirements of the Nonresident Contractors Act. See OCGA § 48-13-37. The trial court granted defendant's motion to dismiss. This appeal followed. Held:
1. Clover Cable of Ohio v. Heywood, 260 Ga. 341, 343(2, 3), 392 S.E.2d 855.
In the case sub judice, there is no question that plaintiff is subject to the registration and bonding requirements of the Nonresident Contractors Act. (Plaintiff is a nonresident contractor and plaintiff entered into a construction contract in the State of Georgia for more than $10,000.) However, the Director of the Sales and Use Tax Division of the Georgia Department of Revenue executed an affidavit and deposed that plaintiff "has not registered and posted a bond with the Department of Revenue for ..." the contract between plaintiff and defendant. The Director of the Sales and Use Tax Division of the Georgia Department of Revenue also deposed that plaintiff filed "no blanket or master bond ..." for the construction contract with the Georgia Department of Revenue. Nonetheless, plaintiff contends the trial court erred in dismissing its petition, arguing that it "substantially complied" with the Nonresident Contractors Act by paying all accrued State and local...
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HARDIN CONST. GROUP v. Fuller Enterprises
...and this Court affirmed the trial court's order dismissing the application on October 26, 1992. Fuller Enterprises v. Hardin Constr. Group, 206 Ga.App. 8, 10(1), 424 S.E.2d 311 (1992). However, we also found that "assuming compliance with any applicable statutes of limitation and any other ......