Court Opinion

ID: 9852140
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 05:25:21.95228+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:22:23.096384
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Evans, Judge,
concurring specially. The majority opinion dismisses the appeal because it is an appeal from a judgment and verdict brought while the case is still pending in the court below on motion for new trial, and is thus premature, and cites many controlling authorities. I fully agree. But I do not agree with the First Division of the opinion which holds that "the late filing of the transcript of evidence ... is no longer a ground for dismissal of appeals by the appellate courts,” citing Code Ann. § 6-809 (Ga. L. 1965, pp. 18, 29, as amended; Ga. L. 1968, pp. 1072, 1073, 1074). It is true that in 1968 the General Assembly enacted that such dismissal would be for determination in the lower court, but the cases of Fahrig v. Garrett, 224 Ga. 817 (2) (165 SE2d 126) and Hardy v. D. G. Machinery &c. Co., 224 Ga. 818 (165 SE2d 127), were written subsequent to the enactment of the above statute, and both made reference to such statute, but held that the appellate courts still have a responsibility to determine the question of jurisdiction irrespective of the enactment of the aforesaid statute. They are, therefore, authority for the dismissal of the appeal in this case, as well as the premature filing of said appeal.
The above sets forth my position and feeling about the dismissal of appeals, but the Supreme Court of Georgia *32and a majority of the Court of Appeals have both in recent times taken a contrary position, by adopting Rule 11 (c) in the Supreme Court and Rule 11 (c) in the Court of Appeals to the effect that the appellee waives any failure of appellant to comply by not objecting and having objection ruled upon in the lower court prior to transmittal of the case to the appellate court. I therefore yield to the combined judgment of my distinguished associates.