Court Opinion

ID: 9625737
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 07:50:02.156488+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:56:22.535500
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Bell, Chief Judge.
I concur in the judgment only here in order to prevent the unnecessary and confusing discussion of the case of Walker Enterprises v. Mullis, 124 Ga. App. 305 (183 SE2d 534) from being considered as a precedent. I concur in the holding as clearly stated in the headnote that the trial judge has discretion to grant an extension of time to answer requests for admissions and that here no abuse of discretion has been shown. However, the discussion of Mullis is totally inapplicable to this case as both the holding and the facts there are completely different from those here. In Mullis there was no statutory response to request for admissions and the plain and unambiguous provisions of the statute controlled and left no room for the exercise of judicial discretion.