Case ID: ga-app_170/html/0009-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Shulman, Presiding Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

67424.
    COTTON STATES MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY v. BISHOP et al.
    Decided February 27, 1984.
    
      Clayton H. Farnham, for appellant.
    
      Bobby Lee Cook, L. Branch S. Connelly, for appellees.
   Shulman, Presiding Judge.

This is an action on a fire insurance policy issued by appellant to appellees. The case was tried before a jury, which returned a verdict for appellant. Subsequently, the trial court granted appellees’ motion for new trial, and this appeal followed.

“[A] judgment granting a new trial is not a final judgment. . .” Henderson v. Henderson, 231 Ga. 208 (200 SE2d 867). While “[t]he grant of a new trial on special grounds involving a question of law is reviewable in a proper appeal [cit.] . . ., we cannot reach the merits of appellant’s contentions in this case [since] [n]o certificate of immediate review was obtained from the trial court nor application made to this court for interlocutory review. [Cits.]” Moore v. Williams, 163 Ga. App. 595 (295 SE2d 866); Young v. Warren, 155 Ga. App. 362 (270 SE2d 897); OCGA § 5-6-34 (b).

Appeal dismissed.

McMurray, C. J., and Birdsong, J., concur.