Court Opinion

ID: 9589249
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 23:42:55.287563+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:34:24.308003
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Felton, C. J.,
concurring specially. I concur in the judgment and the rulings in divisions one and two of the opinion. I concur specially in the ruling in division three. The trial judge is not required to allow time for an amendment where he takes demurrers to a petition under advisement and renders judgment at chambers when there is no request for time in which to amend, as in this case. Ripley v. Eady, 106 Ga. 422 (32 S. E. 343); Tinsley v. Maddox, 176 Ga. 471 (168 S. E. 297); Higgins v. Otis Elevator Co., 69 Ga. App. 584 (26 S. E. 2d 380). Where a request is made for time in which to amend and no opportunity to amend is given, it is not necessary for the reviewing court to *759know what amendment the amending party proposed to make. In Owens v. Rutherford, 200 Ga. 143 (36 S. E. 2d 309), cited in Lipscomb v. City of Cumming, supra, there was no request to amend and a refusal by the court, and the decision takes notice of such fact. The cases cited in Thomas v. Chattanooga Ry. &c. Co., 21 Ga. App. 172 (94 S. E. 50), also in Lipscomb v. City of Cumming, supra, are all cases where specific amendments were tendered and allowance was refused and the contents of the proffered amendments were not properly brought to the reviewing-court. See Wells v. Butler’s Builders’ Supply Co., 128 Ga. 37 (57 S. E. 55); Lytle v. DeVaughn, 81 Ga. 226 (7 S. E. 281).