Court Opinion

ID: 9586084
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 23:07:02.5983+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:24:20.153041
License: Public Domain

On Motion eor Rehearing
Counsel for the plaintiff in error in his motion for a rehearing argues that the verdict for the plaintiff was not authorized because the evidence failed to prove certain specified elements necessary to sustain an action for fraud and deceit, and that, therefore, the judgment denying the motion for a judgment notwithstanding the verdict was erroneous. This argument wholly ignores the distinction between a verdict and judgment demanded by the evidence and one merely authorized. On consideration of an exception to the denial of a motion for a judgment non obstante veredicto, the question before this court is not whether the verdict and judgment of the trial court was merely authorized, but is whether a contrary judgment was demanded. McClelland v. Carmichael Tile Co., 94 Ga. App. 645, supra. A ruling to this effect, either by this court or by the trial court would constitute a final judgment in favor of the defendant, and would be quite a different thing from a mere judgment that the verdict was not authorized or supported by the evidence, and granting a new trial. No question was presented by the record before this court as to whether the verdict and judgment of the trial court were authorized, there being no exception here to the denial of a motion for new trial. This court carefully considered the record before it and concluded that a verdict contrary to that entered was, at least, not demanded, and no reason appears from the citations and argument contained in the motion for rehearing why this judgment was not right. For this reason the motion for rehearing must be

Denied.