Court Opinion

ID: 9590920
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 23:59:36.521809+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:28:06.430029
License: Public Domain

Felton, J.,
concurring specially. A judgment rendered by a judge acting as judge and jury stands upon the same footing as a judgment based on a jury verdict, and such a judgment is not in the breast of the court during the term at which it is rendered. Where a judge renders such a judgment against a defendant, the defendant’s only remedies are a direct exception or a motion for a new trial. In this case there was no direct exception and the motion filed was defective as a motion for a new trial because there was no brief of the evidence. See dissent in Whitlock v. Wilson, 79 Ga. App. 747 (54 S. E. 2d, 474). It seems to me that the many decisions holding that the remedy of a losing party in a case where a judge renders a judgment acting as judge and jury is either a motion for a new trial or a direct exception necessarily negative the idea that an available *93remedy is a motion to have the judgment set aside as one being in the breast of the court during the term. Some of these cases are: Hyfield v. Sims & Co., 87 Ga. 280 (13 S. E. 554); Crumbley v. Brook, 135 Ga. 723 (70 S. E. 655); Goldsmith-Leslie Co. v. Whitehead, 41 Ga. App. 287 (152 S. E. 589); Ellard v. Simpson, 166 Ga. 278 (142 S. E. 855).