Case Name: PIEDMONT COMPANY et al. v. KELLEY et al.
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1906-07-02
Citations: 125 Ga. 759
Docket Number: 
Parties: PIEDMONT COMPANY et al. v. KELLEY et al.
Judges: All the Justices concur, except Fish, G. J„ absent.
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 125
Pages: 759–760

Head Matter:
PIEDMONT COMPANY et al. v. KELLEY et al.
Where upon the hearing of an application for an interlocutory injunction a certain amendment to the petition offered by the plaintiff is disallowed and the injunction is refused, and exception is taken, assigning error upon the ruling rejecting the proposed, amendment, but making no assignment of error upon the ruling refusing the injunction, the writ of error will be dismissed.
Argued June 5,
Decided July 2, 1906.
Motion to dismiss the writ of error.
F. D. Thomas and Felder, Rountree & Wilson, for plaintiffs.
Candlers, Thomson & Hirsch and R. L. D. McAllister, for defendants.

Opinion:
Atkinson, J.
This was a petition for injunction. After the hearing was concluded before the chancellor and before his formal decision was rendered, the plaintiff, by leave of the court, tendered an amendment to the petition, which, on objection of defendants' counsel, was denied. Later judgment was rendered refusing to grant the interlocutory injunction. The plaintiff comes by bill of exceptions, properly assigning error upon the ruling of the courji denying the amendment, but making no assignment of error upon the ruling in refusing the injunction. The effect of this was to let the latter ruling stand without complaint. That ruling determined the real object of the litigation. If there was no exception to that, there could be none to the rulings upon questions relating to the allowance of the amendment. Such questions are merely ancillary, and become immaterial where there is no exception to the ruling upon the main question. This case is controlled by the case of Montgomery v. Reynolds, 124 Ga. 1053 (1), and cit. See also Hendricks v. Reid, post, 775.
Writ of error dismissed.
All the Justices concur, except Fish, G. J" absent.