Case ID: ga_175/html/0843-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Gilbert, J. Russell, C. J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

TIETJEN et al. v. MELDRIM.
    No. 9150.
    October 15, 1932.
    
      
      George H. Richter, for plaintiffs.
    
      Oliver & Oliver, for defendant.
   Gilbert, J.

The court did not err in allowing the amendment to the answer, of which complaint is made in the first assignment of error.

On the first trial the jury found for the defendants. On the second trial the court directed a nonsuit. On the third trial the jury returned a verdict for the defendant. In the third trial numerous questions were submitted for separate findings of fact. These questions directed and compelled a scrutiny of the numerous separate issues on the facts. On each question the jury found for the defendant. The trial judge approved the findings. Every legal question involved in the case as now presented has been settled by the two former adjudications. This court has given serious attention to the case, on each of the three appearances. The verdict is supported by evidence. We find no error of substantial importance, certainly none which would require the grant of a third new trial.

Judgment affh'med.

All the Justices concur, except Atkinson, J., absent.

Russell, C. J.,

concurring specially. Pretermitting any consideration of the decision of this court in Tietjen v. Meldrim, 169 Ga. 678, I concur in affirming the judgment of the learned trial judge. Governed by the broadest principles of equity, there is no error in any of the rulings of the lower court which would require the court to grant another trial in this case. Though I have been unable to find any evidence of the making of improvements or the expenditure of money on the part of the only defendant in the case since she acquired title, which would afford a basis for a plea of estoppel in her behalf, I am not sure that the court can at this time consider any of the plaintiff’s assignments of error which are entirely dependent upon consideration of the evidence, for the reason that so many pages of this voluminous record appear in the form of questions and answers that it must be doubted whether there was a bona fide effort to malee such a brief of the evidence as is required by law.