Court Opinion

ID: 9865649
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-25 19:17:12.576083+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:46:23.955555
License: Public Domain

ON MOTION EOR REHEARING.
Counsel for the movant contend that the verdict and judgment against its plea to the jurisdiction in the lower court was a fina] judgment from which a writ of error will lie, although the main *79case might not have been disposed of. They cite Hanjaras v. Kilpatrick, 7 Ga. App. 464 (67 S. E. 130), Ray v. Hicks, 146 Ga. 685 (92 S. E. 48), and Williams v. Mann, 188 Ga. 212 (3 S. E. 2d, 557). These cases do not sustain counseFs contentions. In the llanjaras case a motion was made to dismiss the suit because of alleged defects appearing upon the face of the pleadings. In the Bay case there was an oral motion to dismiss the case for want of jurisdiction of the defendant’s person, and this motion was predicated on what appeared on the face of the record. In the Williams case the jurisdictional grounds of the motion to dismiss the action appeared on the face of the petition. In all of these cases the motions were in the nature of general demurrers, and the rulings thereon were properly excepted to by direct bills of exceptions. In the instant case there was a plea to the jurisdiction based on matters not appearing on the face of the record, but there was no motion to dismiss the case. Although this plea contained a prayer that the suit be dismissed, this was not sufficient to convert the plea into a motion to dismiss in the nature of a general demurrer, under the ruling in English v. Rosenkrantz, 150 Ga. 745 (105 S. E. 292). Had the verdict been in favor of the plea to the jurisdiction, it would not have been a final disposition of the case, because a judgment of dismissal in the main case would still have been necessary. Mims v. Goette, 42 Ga. App. 625 (157 S. E. 262), and citations.
However, it is ordered that the copy of the bill of exceptions on file in the court below be treated as exceptions taken pendente' lite. Rehearing denied.