Dockery v. Parks
Dockery v. Parks
Dissenting Opinion
dissenting. I dissent from the majority opinion in this case. I regard the case of Tingle v. Atlanta Federal Sav. &c. Assn., 211 Ga. 636 (87 SE2d 841), conformed to by this court, 93 Ga. App. 393 (91 SE2d 804), as controlling, and that this court rather than the Supreme Court has jurisdiction of the appeal on the merits, including the overruling of appellants’ plea in abatement.
The case of Wilson v. Trustees of Union Theological Seminary, 181 Ga. 755 (3) (184 SE 290), is not regarded as contrary to or conflicting with the case of Tingle. The case of Wilson as originally brought was an equitable petition to enjoin the exercise of a power of sale contained in a security deed and on the interlocutory hearing an injunction was refused and it was ordered
Code §§ 37-601 and 37-606 appear to relate to powers of appointment and similar powers founded on trust or confidence and not to powers of sale in security deeds dealt with in Code Ann. § 37-607.
I am authorized to state that Judges Pannell and Deen concur in this dissent.
Opinion of the Court
This is an appeal in an action to confirm the sale of land under a power of sale pursuant to Code Ann. § 37-608 (Ga. L. 1935, p. 381). The Supreme Court, in Tingle v. Atlanta Federal Sav. &c. Assn., 211 Ga. 636 (87 SE2d 841), conformed to by this court, 93 Ga. App. 393 (91 SE2d 804), held that the Court of Appeals, rather than the Supreme Court, has jurisdiction of such appeals. This decision must yield, however, to the older case of Wilson v. Trustees of Union Theological Seminary, 181 Ga. 755 (3) (184 SE 290), in which the Supreme Court took jurisdiction of just such an appeal, holding, in Division (1), that it was an equity case. Although the original suit there sought an injunction against the exercise of the power of sale, that was eliminated as a basis of equitable jurisdiction by the unappealed-from judgment of the trial court refusing an interlocutory injunction. Nor do the facts — that the trial court ordered the sale, if made, to be subject to its confirmation and that the Supreme Court cited, as the authority for the trial court’s granting of the order of confirmation, the statutory provision for the confirmation of sales under decree (Code of 1933, § 37-1206) — necessarily demand the conclusion that the Supreme Court assumed jurisdiction solely on the theory that the sale became one under decree merely because of the trial court’s order requiring confirmation. The sale itself was made, not pursuant to a decree, but pursuant to the power of sale contained in the security deed.
Even if the basis of the appellate jurisdiction be as last stated hereinabove, however, the Tingle case, supra, is contrary to statutory law, in which case the statute must control. Huguley v. Huguley, 204 Ga. 692 (51 SE2d 445); Stevens v. Wright Contr. Co., 92 Ga. App. 373, 383 (88 SE2d 511); Stein Steel & Supply Co. v. Tate, 94 Ga. App. 517 (1) (95 SE2d 437). The Code of
Transferred to the Supreme Court.
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