Court Opinion

ID: 9851728
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 05:18:43.287579+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:22:14.116214
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Webb, Judge,
concurring specially.
The Supreme Court in reversing the judgment of this court in Doyal Development Co. v. Blair, 133 Ga. App. 613 (211 SE2d 642) holds that "findings of fact and conclusions of law required by Code Ann. § 81A-152 (a) are mandatory.” The writer of the opinion on the decision so reversed approached the case with an attitude perhaps more practical than technical, or more realistic than judicial, i.e., the detailed findings of fact by the trial court and his conclusions of law, though not formally separated, were quite sufficient for purposes of review, and no useful purpose would be served by remanding the case to cure formal defects which would not likely affect the result. Be that as it may, however, our Supreme Court has spoken differently, and to paraphrase B. Alderson in Mearing v. Hellings, 14 M & W 711, 712 (153 Eng. Rep. 661, 662), "I accede to the authority of the Suprenie Court, though I think its decision questionable. It does not convince me; it overcomes me.”