Case ID: ga_149/html/0084-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Gilbert, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Calhoun v. Arnold, administrator.
    No. 1233.
    April 18, 1919.
    Equitable petition. Before Judge Graham. Dooly superior court. October 24, 1918.
    
      Watts Powell, W. H. Lasseter, and Jule Felton, for plaintiff in error.
    
      Jere M. Moore, L. L. Woodward, and Jones & Bussey, contra.
   Gilbert, J.

1. The judgment of the court overruling the demurrer was not erroneous.

2. According to the uniform ruling of this court, where the verdict is not demanded by the law and the evidence, the judgment of the trial court awarding a first new trial wjll not be distui’bed.

Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concur, except

Atkinson, J.,

who dissents on the ground that the evidence demanded the verdict in favor of the transferee of the insurance policy in the contest over the fund between the administrator upon the estate of the insured and the transferee, and that the judge erred in granting a new trial.