Court Opinion

ID: 9849471
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 04:40:39.478216+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:18:02.320603
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McMurray, Presiding Judge,
concurring specially.
I agree fully with the majority opinion and all that is said therein and the reversal of the trial court. However, I desire to add the following due to the recent decision of Albert v. Bryan, 150 Ga. App. 649.
In the case sub judice the plaintiff voluntarily dismissed his petition with prejudice on September 12, *581978. More than thirty days later, plaintiff moved the court to correct an alleged clerical error in his voluntary dismissal, i.e., to change it from dismissal with prejudice to dismissal without prejudice. The motion was allowed, amending the dismissal nunc pro tunc. Be that as it may, the petition was no longer before the court as it had been voluntarily dismissed. At that point in time there was nothing before the court for consideration by it.
As has been clearly stated in Waldor v. Waldor, 217 Ga. 496 (1) (123 SE2d 660) at page 497, the dismissal of plaintiffs petition removed the case from the court and, further, after dismissal there is no case in court. See also the various citations for the ruling made by the Supreme Court in that case.
In Albert v. Bryan, 150 Ga. App. 649, supra, there was a voluntary dismissal of a notice of appeal by counsel for the appellant. In that case the trial court did the very same thing as here, i.e., attempted to resurrect the case and allow it to proceed in this court. While that case is not directly on all-fours with this case, in both of these instances the dismissals were acts of counsel for the parties and not the action of the court.