Parker v. Averett

Frankum, Judge.

The judgment appealed from in this case granted the plaintiff’s motion for a summary judgment against the defendants on the issue of liability, leaving for the jury the question respecting the amount of damages recoverable. While, under the provisions of Section 8 of the Act approved March 17, 1959 (Ga. L. 1959, pp. 234, 236; Code Ann. § 110-1208), an order granting a summary judgment on any issue was, before the passage of the Appellate Practice Act of 1965 (Ga. L. 1965, p. 18 et seq.), reviewable by direct bill of exceptions, and while that provision of the 1959, Act was not…