Johnson v. Southern Railway Co.
Johnson v. Southern Railway Co.
Opinion of the Court
1. On September 10, 1927, the court sustained the defendant’s plea in bar, and dismissed the petition of the plaintiff. To this judgment the plaintiff excepted pendente lite, and assigns error thereon. On September 23, 1927, the court, without notice to the plaintiff, passed an order revoking and vacating the order sustaining the defendant’s plea in bar and dismissing the petition. To this order the plaintiff excepted pendente lite, and assigns error. The plaintiff offered an amendment to his petition, in reply to the plea in bar. The court rejected this amendment, and the plaintiff excepted pendente lite, reciting that the rejected amendment is attached as exhibit A to his bill of exceptions. Exhibit A contains only a plat of the premises in dispute. There appears in the record, immediately after the certificate of the judge to the exceptions pendente lite, what purports to be an amendment to the petition. This amendment is not identified by the signature of the judge, and it does not appear to have been made a part of the record by order of the court. Held:
(а) The error in sustaining the plea in bar and in dismissing the plaintiff’s petition was cured by the subsequent order of the court setting aside and vacating said order.
(б) The order setting aside and vacating the former order sustaining the plea in bar and dismissing the plaintiff’s petition, if erroneous, was an error committed in favor of the plaintiff, of which he can not complain.
(c) The amendment offered by the plaintiff to meet the plea in bar filed by the defendant is not incorporated in his exceptions pendente lite, nor in the bill of exceptions, nor is it attached to either as an exhibit properly identified; for which reason the exception to the order of the court disallowing it can not be considered. Greer v. McDonald, 141 Ga. 309 (2) (80 S. E. 1002) ; Holmes v. Gobb Real Estate Co., 142 Ga. 56 (82 S. E. 496).
2. In its plea in bar the defendant alleged that the plaintiff had.given to it an option to purchase that portion of his land involved in this
(a) The verdict in favor of the defendant’s plea was demanded by the evidence, and the court did not err in directing the jury to return this verdict.
(&) Having held that we can not consider the assignment of error based 'upon the refusal of the court to permit the plaintiff to amend his petition so as to meet the allegations of the defendant’s plea, we can not determine what rights, if any, the plaintiff has been deprived of by said ruling. Judgment affirmed.
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