Court Opinion

ID: 5636869
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-11 05:53:46.233143+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:38:01.899265
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Carley, Judge,
concurring specially.
I concur in the result reached by the majority in this case and I fully agree with the majority’s reasoning supporting the affirming of the trial court’s order releasing to MARTA the cash bond it had posted in accordance with an earlier order of court.
However, the majority disposes of appellant’s contentions with regard to the writ of possession by relying upon mootness. I do not think that, in this case, appellate review is permissible as to the issue of the writ of possession even to the extent of determining mootness.
The writ of possession complained of was entered on November 30, 1976, and no notice of appeal was taken therefrom within 30 days from the entry thereof. Pretermitting the question of appealability of the 1976 writ of possession at the time of the notice of appeal bringing this case to this court (see Crymes v. Crymes, 148 Ga. App. 299 (251 SE2d 155) (1978), and Golden Key Restaurant &c. v. Key Mgmt. Corp., 137 Ga. App. 251 (1) (223 SE2d 284) (1976), holding a writ of possession to be a final appealable judgment.), the record clearly reveals that — even at that time — there was no appeal from the 1976 writ of possession. The original notice of appeal was filed on November 29, 1978, and stated plainly that appellant appealed to this court from the order releasing the bond dated November 6, 1978. Only by an "Amendment to Notice of Appeal” filed on January 11, 1979, did appellant attempt to appeal from the order dated November 30, 1976. It is clear that appellant could *23not have filed an "original” notice of appeal from either order later than December 6,1978. Hull v. Campbell, 130 Ga. App. 637 (204 SE2d 312) (1974). Appellant has cited no authority sanctioning the amendment of a notice of appeal 44 days after the filing thereof to include an order not specified in the original appeal. I know of no such authority and would grant appellee’s motion to dismiss the appeal insofar as the same relates to the 1976 writ of possession.