CROSBY Et Al. v. JOHNSON Et Al.  ·  2015-11-23  ·  Court of Appeals of Georgia  ·  pin 741 S.E.2d at 147

“[T]he fundamental rules of statutory construction ... require us to construe [the] statute according to its terms, to give words their plain and ordinary meaning, and to avoid a construction that makes some language mere surplusage.”