Case ID: ga_115/html/0768-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Little, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Owens v. Read Phosphate Company.
    Submitted May 1,
    Decided June 11, 1902.
    Rebearing denied June IS, 1902.
    Motion to dismiss the writ of error.
    Owens brought suit, laying his damages at $600. At the trial, after the introduction of evidence, the court, on motion of the defendant, directed a verdict for $15 in favor of the plaintiff, who excepted to this and to other rulings made during the trial. A motion was made to dismiss the writ of error, on the ground tbat the plaintiff had caused execution for the amount of the verdict to be issued and enforced; this fact appearing by affidavits of counsel for the defendant, and of the clerk and sheriff, and being admitted in the brief of counsel for the plaintiff.
    
      Simeon Blue and W. D. Crawford, for plaintiff.
    
      J. H. Lumpkin and J. J. Dunham, for defendant.
   Little, J.

Where aplaintiff brings suit and recovers a money judgment against, a defendant in an amount less than he claims, and then files a bill of exceptions alleging that errors were committed on the trial in which the judgment was rendered, but subsequently has execution issued on his judgment and levied on the property of the defendant, and the same is paid off and discharged by the defendant, such plaintiff can not afterwards prosecute his writ of error in this court. Having coerced the payment of his judgment, he will be held to have elected to take it as rendered. When such facts are made to appear to this court, the writ of error will be dismissed. Elliott on App. Proc. §150, and cases cited in note 3, page 126; 2 Cyc. Law & Proc. 662, and numerous cases cited in note 76, p. 653.

Writ of error dismissed.

All the Justices concurring, except Lewis, J., absent.