Court Opinion

ID: 9623117
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 06:28:05.123992+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:05:24.542268
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Deen, Judge,
concurring specially.  While a notice of appeal filed prior to a final judgment is premature and ground for dismissal, where it appears that the final judgment and notice of appeal were filed on the same date it will be presumed that the judgment was filed before the notice, and the appeal will not be dismissed as premature under the rule set out in Gibson v. Hodges, 221 Ga. 779 (147 SE2d 329). I consider it “apparent” that the final judgment was appealed from, although the date is wrongly stated in the notice of appeal. Ga. L. 1968, pp. 1072, 1073.
As to the general grounds, there was evidence supporting the only issues submitted to the jury by the trial court, which was whether the grantor H. L. Anthony signed the deed in question and whether he had sufficient mental capacity to do so at the time of execution.
The first enumeration of error offers nothing for consideration by this court. The case filed by Bishop Anthony on July 13, 1955, and which it is admitted had no further action after that date, died on July 13, 1960. Code Ann. § 3-512. While error is enumerated on the failure of the trial court to submit to the jury other questions “submitted on pre-trial and made a part of the record” we are not referred to any place in the record where we may find such submission and we have as a matter of fact been unable to do so. Further, the pre-trial order is dated February 25, includes only the questions submitted, and the amendment of the plaintiff attempting to raise other issues as to the competency of Mrs. Anthony to sign a later deed was not raised until plaintiff filed an amendment dated February 28, the day of the trial.
*267This constitutes some evidence that the questions now attempted to be raised were not considered on the pre-trial hearing.
I would affirm the judgment.