Court Opinion

ID: 9568829
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 20:07:50.487146+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T11:09:36.347383
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Deen, Presiding Judge,
concurring in part and dissenting in part.
In this case, the appellant alleged that the particle board manufactured by the appellee contained a defect which caused the board to “bubble.” The appellee refuted this allegation with the expert’s affidavit indicating that the “bubbled” particle board submitted for examination had a high moisture content and that dry particle board does not “bow or cup.” The appellee’s expert did not literally declare the absence of any defect, but I do not believe his affidavit is subject to any reasonable construction other than that the bubbling was due to moisture rather than any defect.
The appellant raised the specific issue of the cause of the bubbling of the particle board, and the appellee’s evidence refuted the specific allegation that the bubbling was caused by a defect in the board. The majority opinion’s contrary conclusion in Division 2 results from too technical a reading of the affidavits in this case. “Now, formalism and technicality are very important to the successful and orderly administration of justice in any juridic system; but there is too much plain common sense stored away in the substructure upon which our whole system is based to allow of any such result. . . .” Roberts v. Arnall, 9 Ga. App. 328, 332 (71 SE 590) (1911).
I concur fully with the majority opinion except for Division 2, from which, for the reason stated above, I respectfully dissent. I am authorized to state that Judge Beasley joins in this opinion.