Case ID: ga_143/html/0392-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Atkinson, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Richardson v. Hames.
    April 22, 1915.
    Action for damages. Before Judge Wrigbt. Walker superior court. August 27, 1914.
    
      P. D. Wright and W. M. Henry, for plaintiff.
    
      J. E. Rosser and R. M. W. Glenn, for defendant.
   Atkinson, J.

Where a plaintiff fails to make out a prima facie ease, a verdict for the defendant should not be directed, but a judgment of non-suit should be entered. The judgment of the court is affirmed, with direction that plaintiif have leave to take a judgment vacating the verdict and substituting a judgment of nonsuit, when the remittitur is made the judgment of the court below. Barnes v. Carter, 120 Ga. 895 (48 S. E. 387) ; Equitable Manufacturing Co. v. Davis, 130 Ga. 67 (60 S. E. 262).

Judgment affirmed, with direction.

All the Justices concur, except Fish, G. J., absent.