DocketNumber: No. 11408
Citation Numbers: 183 Ga. 497
Filed Date: 11/12/1936
Status: Precedential
Modified Date: 1/12/2023
The bill of exceptions as brought by the defendant assigns error only upon exceptions pendente lite as taken to the overruling of a demurrer to the plaintiff’s petition, and upon an order striking the defendants’ plea in abatement. Held-. '
1. “The losing party to a judgment on general demurrer is given the option to sue out a direct bill of exceptions assigning error on the judgment, or to have certified and filed exceptions pendente lite. If the latter course be followed, the ruling on demurrer becomes a pendente-lite ruling which is reviewable only after the termination of the case, on exceptions taken to the final judgment rendered therein. Civil Code (1910),
2. An order striking- a plea in abatement is not a final judgment, nor would a judgment thereon have been a final disposition of the cause “if it had been rendered as claimed by the plaintiff in error.” Code, § 6-701; Ross v. Mercer, 115 Ga. 353 (41 S. E. 594); Johnson v. Battle, 120 Ga. 649 (48 S. E. 128); English v. Rosenkrantz, 150 Ga. 745 (105 S. E. 292); Crider v. Harris, 181 Ga. 555 (182 S. E. 592).
3. It follows that the bill of exceptions is premature, and must be dismissed. While no motion to dismiss has been made, it is the duty of this court to take notice of its own lack of jurisdiction; and the failure to assign error upon a final judgment is a defect relating to jurisdiction. Johnson v. Battle, 120 Ga. supra; Welborne v. State, 114 Ga. 793 (40 S. E. 857); Vanzant v. First National Bank, 164 Ga. 772 (2-a) (139 S. E. 537); Malsby v. Shipp, 177 Ga. 54 (3) (169 S. E. 308).
Writ of error dismissed.
Malcom v. Webb , 209 Ga. 735 ( 1953 )
Byrd v. Goodman , 192 Ga. 466 ( 1941 )
Darden v. Roberts , 193 Ga. 637 ( 1942 )
Clements v. Hollingsworth , 202 Ga. 684 ( 1947 )
Carpenter v. State Ex Rel. Hains , 194 Ga. 395 ( 1942 )
Story v. City of MacOn , 203 Ga. 105 ( 1947 )
Fitzgerald Cotton Mills v. Murray , 69 Ga. App. 636 ( 1943 )