Court Opinion

ID: 9851615
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 05:16:02.7687+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:22:08.657997
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*229On Motion roe Rehearing.
In the motion for rehearing counsel for the defendant in error insist that the ruling made in division 2 of the opinion is in conflict with the decision of this court in Phillips v. Southern Ry. Co., 112 Ga. 197 (37 S. E. 418). With this contention we do not agree. Counsel have evidently overlooked' the material difference in the assignments of error in the two cases. In the Phillips case, the exception to the direction of a verdict for the defendant was in the following language: “plaintiff excepted to said ruling of the court, and now excepts and assigns the same as error.” This court there held that, under such an assignment, the only question raised was whether the evidence demanded the verdict directed, and that the question of whether the plaintiff was entitled to recover “as matter of law” was not involved, and “therefore this question is neither considered nor discussed by this court.” In the instant case, the motion for a judgment notwithstanding the verdict alleged that the verdict and judgment in favor of the plaintiff were “contrary to law, contrary to the evidence, and without any evidence to support them.” To the judgment denying this motion the defendant excepts and assigns error thereon “as being contrary to law,” thus raising the question as to whether the plaintiff was, as a matter of law, entitled to recover.

Motion for rehearing denied.