Court Opinion

ID: 9588324
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 23:32:52.610541+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:00:58.075014
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Nichols, Justice,
dissenting. I dissent from the judgment of affirmance in this case for the reason that jurisdiction of the appeal is in the Court of Appeals and not the Supreme Court.
The judgments appealed from merely overrule the motions of Hancock County to dismiss the claim and cross claim without an express ruling of the trial court on the constitutionality of Code § 23-1502.
" 'This court will never pass upon the constitutionality of an Act of the General Assembly unless it clearly appears ... that the point was directly and properly made in the court below and distinctly passed on by the trial judge. ’ (Emphasis supplied.) Tant v. State, 226 Ga. 761 (177 SE2d 484) and tit.” In re Boult, 227 Ga. 564 (181 SE2d 821).
*726The mere overruling of a motion to dismiss does not distinctly pass upon the constitutionality of a statute.