Court Opinion

ID: 9586226
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 23:08:27.427078+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:25:39.196527
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
One of the issues presented for determination by this *86court was whether an application for attorney fees was made prior to the jury’s verdict granting a divorce. In deciding this issue, this court considered the supplemental transcript of the record. The movant contends that this court erred in considering this transcript of the record because it did not comply with Code Ann. § 6-805 (f) (Ga. L. 1965, pp. 18, 24). The movant contends that since the parties were unable to agree on what transpired in the trial court that the trial court should have "set the matter down for a hearing with notice to both parties, and resolve[d] the difference so as to make the record conform to the truth.” Code Ann. § 6-805 (f). The movant contends that he did not have notice of any hearing on the matter. However, the movant overlooks the next sentence of this Code section which provides: "If anything material to either party is omitted from the record on appeal or is misstated therein, the parties by stipulation, or the trial court, either before or after the record is transmitted to the appellate court, on a proper suggestion or of its own initiative, may direct that the omission or misstatement shall be corrected, and, if necessary, that a supplemental record shall be certified and transmitted by the clerk of the trial court.” (Emphasis supplied.)
The trial judge in his findings of fact and conclusions of law stated: "I was the trial judge in the above entitled matter and have reviewed the transcript of the proceedings had herein as well as my trial notes. Based thereon, and upon my independent recollection of the facts herein, I find as follows: That at a side bar conference in which the respective attorneys and the Court participated, the attorney for the plaintiff reserved attorney fees, which reservation was joined in by the defendant’s attorney with the Court granting leave to the plaintiff to make such reservation. Conclusions of Law. The record shall reflect that there was a reservation of attorney fees herein.” The trial judge directed that the superior court clerk include these findings of fact and conclusions of law in its correction of the record. Therefore, this court properly considered the correction of the record made by the trial court.
The movant’s motion based on this ground is *87therefore without merit.