Court Opinion

ID: 9575346
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Date Created: 2023-08-21 21:13:12.768384+00
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On Motion for Rehearing.
On motion for rehearing, appellants cite the case of Culwell v. Lomas & Nettleton Co., 242 Ga. 242 (248 SE2d 641) (1978) for the proposition that a party against whom summary judgment is granted may appeal that decision either after the grant of summary judgment or after a final judgment has been rendered in the case. Appellants argue that Lomas and its progeny require this court to consider on this appeal the earlier grant of partial summary judgment to Fulton County on the state law claims. While Lomas contains a correct statement of the law, it is inapposite in this instance. The order appealed from in the instant case is not a final judgment. Since the individual appellees’ motion for summary judgment on the state law claims was denied, this issue remained to be resolved and the order did not constitute a final ruling on all the merits of the action. See Vurgess v. State, 187 Ga. App. 700 (1) (371 SE2d 191) (1988). That aspect of the case remained pending in the trial court. OCGA § 5-6-34 (a) (1). “Where there is a case involving multiple parties or multiple claims, a decision adjudicating fewer than all the claims or the rights and liabilities of less than all the parties is not a final judgment. [Cit.] In such circumstances, there must be an express determination under *171OCGA § 9-11-54 (b) or there must be compliance with the requirements of OCGA § 5-6-34 (b).” Spivey v. Rogers, 167 Ga. App. 729 (307 SE2d 677) (1983). Neither of these requirements was complied with herein. The instant appeal is predicated on OCGA § 9-11-56 (h), which allows a direct appeal from a grant of summary judgment, and appeals the trial court’s grant of summary judgment to all appellees on the federal claims. “In [Olympic Dev. Group, Inc. v. American Druggists’Ins. Co., 175 Ga. App. 425 (1) (333 SE2d 622) (1985)], this court held that where the appellants had failed to bring a timely appeal from a grant of partial summary judgment, they could not obtain appellate review of that ruling in an appeal from a subsequent grant of partial summary judgment, where the latter order did not constitute a final judgment in the case.” Hutchison v. Nat. Services Indus., 191 Ga. App. 885, 886 (1) (383 SE2d 212) (1989). See Gulf Oil Co. v. Mantegna, 167 Ga. App. 844 (1) (307 SE2d 732) (1983). Since, as we stated in our opinion, a motion for reconsideration does not extend the time for filing a notice of appeal, appellants’ second enumeration is without merit.
Decided June 8, 1990
Rehearing denied July 2, 1990 — Cert, applied for.
Ford & Haley, James L. Ford, Johnson & Vandiver, C. Donald Johnson, Jr., for appellants.
Susan B. Forsling, for appellees.
Appellants’ argument premised on Wideman v. Shallowford Community Hosp., 826 F2d 1030 (11th Cir. 1987) has been discussed in our main opinion and appellants present nothing new to review on motion for rehearing.

Motion for rehearing is denied.