Case Name: MATHIS et al. v. HEGWOOD
Court: Court of Appeals of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1994-02-04
Citations: 212 Ga. App. 335
Docket Number: A93A2260
Parties: MATHIS et al. v. HEGWOOD.
Judges: Birdsong, P. J., and Smith, J., concur. Andrews, J., disqualified.
Reporter: Georgia Appeals Reports
Volume: 212
Pages: 335–335

Head Matter:
A93A2260.
MATHIS et al. v. HEGWOOD.
(441 SE2d 766)
Decided February 4, 1994
Reconsideration denied March 9, 1994.
Charles G. Wright, Jr., for appellants.
Albert C. Palmour, Jr., for appellee.

Opinion:
Pope, Chief Judge.
On May 7, 1984, a final judgment on remittitur was entered in the Superior Court of Walker County. This judgment decreed that plaintiff Hegwood was the owner in fee simple of certain real property and ordered the clerk to issue a writ of possession to be executed by the sheriff and his deputies. The writ was issued but was never executed. Then, on March 17, 1993, plaintiff brought this action to revive a dormant judgment. See OCGA § 9-12-60 et seq. The trial court ordered that the 1984 judgment be revived, and defendants' motion for reconsideration was denied.
On appeal, defendants challenge the trial court's order on several procedural grounds. Pretermitting consideration of these enumerated errors, we conclude that the order reviving the dormant judgment must be reversed because there was no dormant judgment to revive: OCGA § 9-12-60 applies only to judgments or decrees ordering the payment of a sum of money. See Brown v. Parks, 190 Ga. 540 (2) (9 SE2d 897) (1940).
Judgment reversed.
Birdsong, P. J., and Smith, J., concur. Andrews, J., disqualified.