Judges Lisa Branch (left) and Charlie Bethel, Georgia Court of Appeals
State appeals court judges argued passionately over the court’s role in public policy as it decided a case over a fraction of the fortune of the late Coca-Cola Co. CEO Roberto Goizueta.
At issue are claims by 14 people who worked for Coke under Goizueta, who died in 1997, or with his late widow, Olga, who died in 2015. They say that two Goizueta children improperly forced Olga Goizueta to change a trust document so that it eliminated her intention to bequeath about $5.4 million to the ex-workers.
