Court Opinion

ID: 9856267
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 06:43:29.052625+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:38:31.966527
License: Public Domain

On Motion to Rehear.
“An order denying summary judgment is not subject to review by direct appeal or otherwise, unless within 10 days of the order of denial the trial judge certifies that the order denying summary judgment as to any issue or as to any party should be subject to review, in which case such order shall be subject to review by direct appeal.” Code Ann. § 81A-156 (h). The statute plainly specifies that unless the order denying a motion for summary judgment is appealed within 30 days and accompanied by a proper judicial certificate it is nonreviewable. Like a motion for nonsuit, it becomes moot when the court reviews the evidence upon the trial of the case. Hill v. Willis, 224 Ga. 263 (2) (161 SE2d 281). For this reason the motion of the appellants here that this court send to the trial court to obtain affidavits introduced in support of a motion for summary judgment overruled and not appealed prior to trial, which affidavits were by the clerk of the trial court omitted on appeal, has not been granted for the reason that it would not benefit either party.