1. No assignment of error having been made upon the direction of a verdict in this case, the Court of Appeals has no authority to decide whether the trial judge erred in so directing. Dickenson v. Stults, 120 Ga. 632 (48 S. E. 173); Arnold v. Ragan, 5 Ga. App. 254 (62 S. E. 1052).

2. The verdict was authorized by the evidence, and the judgment refusing to grant a new trial must be

Affirmed.