Court Opinion

ID: 9582712
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 22:30:37.537464+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:38:15.982619
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Felton, Chief Judge,
concurring specially. 1. There is an additional reason why the defendant had a right to demur to the petition as amended and that is that in the first order the court sustained one ground of demurrer and the order allowed the plaintiff twenty days within which to amend and provided that “otherwise petition is dismissed.” Under the amendment to Code (Ann.) § 81-1001 such a judgment is of no effect and means nothing insofar as the law of the case is concerned, as another and final order must be passed whether the pleadings are amended or not. McConnell v. White, 91 Ga. App. 92 (85 S. E. 2d 75).
2. The mortgages sued on stated that they were given to secure promissory notes in certain amounts due in ninety days and bearing interest at eight percent. My view is that the mortgages would have to be reformed to show that they secured debts for which ¡no notes were given to bring the case within the principle announced in Stansell v. Corley, 81 Ga. 453 (8 S. E. 868) and similar cases and to make the mortgages actionable. I think the ruling in Alropa Corp. v. Goldstein, 69 Ga. App. 168 (25 S. E. 2d 116), refers only to mortgages which were indisputably given to secure promissory notes or separate evidences of debt.