amount of the diminished value of the property due to the unauthorized removal of timber. It follows that CML-GA has failed to show any error in the trial court’s grant of summary judgment to Redcedar on this issue. 5. Nevertheless, CML-GA contends that the court abused its discretion in refusing to allow it to present evidence of the diminished value of the property at trial for the purpose of showing that it is entitled to attorney fees and punitive damages. It argues that such evidence is relevant to show that Redcedar acted in bad faith and in conscious indifference to the consequences, contending that, when Redcedar cut and removed the timber, it knew that its actions would diminish the value of the property Decide ns. Co. of America, 86 Ga. App. 738, 742 (2) (72 SE2d 497) (1952) (<HOLDING>). 9 OCGA § 51-12-51 (a) (emphasis supplied). 10
holding that a person who cut and removed timber pursuant to the direction of the person in possession of the property but without the written consent of the company holding legal title to the land could be held liable under the gtccs holding that a company that cut and removed timber from land that secured a debt held by the plaintiff was liable as a matter of law under an earlier version of the gtccs because it had not first obtained the written consent of the plaintiff holding that effect of discharge of debt under bankruptcy code is the same as it was under the 1898 bankruptcy act it is not an extinguishment of the debt but only a bar to enforcement of the debt as a personal obligation of the debt or holding that a person who cut and removed timber from a golf course was liable to the owners of the course as a matter of law under the gtccs regardless how the person subsequently disposed of the timber ie by using selling or discarding it holding that if an insurance company is as a matter of state law liable to a plaintiff in the personal injury action subsequent discharge of the assured in bankruptcy does not alter the obligation of the insurance company and further finding that it is the policy of the law to discharge the bankrupt but not to release from liabilities those who are liable with him