Case Name: PIERCE v. HAYGOOD et al.; WILLINGHAM FINANCE COMPANY, INC., v. PIERCE et al.; HAYGOOD v. PIERCE et al.
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1957-09-06
Citations: 213 Ga. 459
Docket Number: 19755; 19773; 19776
Parties: PIERCE v. HAYGOOD et al. WILLINGHAM FINANCE COMPANY, INC., v. PIERCE et al. HAYGOOD v. PIERCE et al.
Judges: All the Jtistices concur.
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 213
Pages: 459–460

Head Matter:
19755.
19773.
19776.
PIERCE v. HAYGOOD et al. WILLINGHAM FINANCE COMPANY, INC., v. PIERCE et al. HAYGOOD v. PIERCE et al.

Opinion:
Head, Justice.
1. Where the judge fails to certify that the "bill of exceptions is true," this court is without jurisdiction to pass upon the merits of the exceptions. Code § 6-806, as amended, Ga. L. 1946, pp. 726, 732; Cady v. Cady, 161 Ga. 556 (131 S. E. 282); Blackley v. Bell, 187 Ga. 702 (1 S. E. 2d 676); Edge v. State, 199 Ga. 431 (34 S. E. 2d 498); Beasley v. Georgia Power Co., 207 Ga. 188 (60 S. E. 2d 363).
2. There can be no; second certificate to a bill of exceptions. Scott v. Central Railroad, 77 Ga. 450; Cordray v. Savannah Union Station Co., 134 Ga. 865 (68 S. E. 697); Langston v. Langston, 141 Ga. 675, 676 (4) (82 S. E. 36); Grant v. Southern Bell Telephone &c. Co., 145 Ga. 298 (89 S. E. 364); Cartledge v. Ashford, 148 Ga. 589 (97 S. E. 521); Kniepkamp v. Richards, 192 Ga. 509, 515 (16 S. E. 2d 24).
Argued July 8, 1957
Decided September 6, 1957.
C. 0. Baker, Gardner & Gayner, Jay D. Gardner, for plaintiff in error (case No. 19755).
Claud B. Caldwell, O. J. Tolnas, P. J. Smith, contra.
Claud B. Caldwell, O. J. Tolnas, for plaintiff in error (case No. 19773).
P. J. Smith, C. 0. Baker, contra.
P. J. Smith, for plaintiff in error (case No. 19776).
O. J. Tolnas, C. 0. Baker, contra.
3. Code § 6-810, providing for the certification of material evidence omitted from the transcript of the record, has no application to the facts of the present case, and this court is without jurisdiction to consider the main bill of exceptions. This ruling terminates the case, and the cross-bills of exceptions are therefore dismissed.
Writs of error dismissed.
All the Jtistices concur.