Smith v. Cook

56 Ga. 661

• Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
• Decided: July 15, 1876
• Status: Published

Opinion

Warner, Chief Justice.

This was a motion for a new trial, as stated in the bill of exceptions, in an equity cause, in which Hamlin J. Cook was complainant, and F. P. Smith and D. D. Smith were defendants, on the trial of which it is alleged that a decree was rendered in favor of the complainant, but the record before us does not disclose the fact that any verdict or decree was rendered in the cause which this court can either affirm or reverse. If the record contains a full and complete exemplification of the case, as the clerk certifies it does, then it is still pending in the court below, for there does not appear to have been any final disposition of the cause as required by the 4250th section of the Code.

This case comes within the ruling of this court in the case of Bean & Company vs. Hadley, decided at the present term. Inasmuch, therefore, as the record brought here by the plaintiff in error does not affirmatively show that any verdict or decree has been rendered in the cause which this court can either affirm or reverse, it is ordered that the writ of error be dismissed.