Stephens v. United Trust Life Insurance Company

Whitman, Judge.

The Appellate Practice Act provides that appeals may be taken to the appellate courts in specified instances (not here applicable) and also: “1. Where the judgment is final — that is to say — where the cause is no longer pending in the court below . . . [or] 2. Where the decision or judgment complained of, if it had been rendered as claimed for by the appellant, would have been a final disposition of the cause or final as to some material party thereto.” Ga. L. 1965, p. 18 (Code Ann. § 6-701). (The 1968 General Assembly by an amendment to the Act struck the last enumerated…