Court Opinion

ID: 9586668
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Date Created: 2023-08-21 23:13:53.863001+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:32:47.265256
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Townsend, Judge,
concurring specially on rehearing. I concur with the judgment of affirmance, but not with what is said in the motion to rehear nor with the first sentence of the ma-*660j ority opinion. As I pointed out in the first instance, the amendment to the petition in question did not add the word “Inc.” to the plaintiff’s name, but deleted the superfluous words “of Cy Owens.” And while I agree with counsel for the movant that a new party may conceivably be added by deletion as well as addition of material, I find that was not the case here for the reason that the petition and process, at the time they were served upon the defendant designated that defendant as “Cy Owens, Inc.,” and it is my position that where the wording of the original petition is such as to suggest a typographical error, and that error is corrected prior to service of process, the petition in the form in which process and service are made will alone be considered in considering who are the parties to the case.
Counsel for movant correctly states that this court had not passed upon the first ground of the motion to quash process, based on the proposition that the trial court was without jurisdiction to- entertain an amendment, and to attach process to the petition, while the case was pending in this court. An examination of the record shows that the remittitur of this court in the case of McCoy v. Cy Owens, Inc., 99 Ga. App. 615 (109 S. E. 2d 543) was filed in the trial court on June 15, 1959, and the amendment was not filed there until July 21, 1959, so the contention is not true as a matter of fact. Another part of the case embodied in Douglas Motor Sales, Inc. v. Cy Owens, Inc., 99 Ga. App. 890 (109 S. E. 2d 874) was also on appeal and that remittitur was filed in the trial court on August 5, 1959, but the judgment there involved simply affirmed the case as to other defendants and did not affect these defendants. The decision in Kiser v. Kiser, 214 Ga. 849 (108 S. E. 2d 265) as this court understands it does not mean that an amendment cannot be filed in the trial court under any circumstances if there is an appeal as to any feature of the case pending in this court or the Supreme Court. What it means is that if all of the case is so pending, as where a single defendant appeals after verdict and judgment, then there is no part of the case left pending in the trial court as to which an amendment to pleadings would be operative. Such- a situation is not here involved.