Court Opinion

ID: 9847507
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 04:01:02.730753+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:17:18.625633
License: Public Domain

Jordan, Justice,
dissenting. I dissent for the reason that, in my opinion, certiorari was improvidently granted in this case. While the Court of Appeals issued a five to four opinion, there was no conflict between the majority opinion and the dissenting opinion on any question of law. Both opinions recognize the law as set forth in the headnote of this opinion. The majority view in the Court of Appeals held, "However, in the instant case there simply is no evidence which brings this case within these holdings.” In the opinion of the dissenting Judges in the Court of Appeals the evidence was sufficient to do so. This court by taking certiorari now reverses the majority holding in the Court of Appeals and adopts the dissenting view that the evidence was sufficient to constitute a "new accident.”
Where the Court of Appeals is split merely on the *177application of a particular factual situation to applicable law this court should not interfere. For this court to review decisions of the Court of Appeals where only the "quantum” of the evidence is involved is to destroy the usefulness of that court as a court of review. See Macon News Printing Co. v. Hampton, 192 Ga. 623, 629 (15 SE2d 793). The grant of certiorari in such a case does not meet the "gravity and importance” provisions of our rules.
I therefore respectfully dissent.