W. T. Rawleigh Company v. Forbes

Atkinson, Justice.

(After stating the foregoing facts.) The question here presented emanates from the amendment to the Code, § 6-806, which was one of many changes made in our law of appellate procedure by the act of 1946 (Ga. L. 1946, p. 726). This being the first instance wherein any provision covered by this act has been before this court for interpretation, it might be well to summarize its historical background.

The General Assembly adopted an act,' approved February 16, 1945 (Ga. L. 1945, p. 145), entitled: “An act to provide for the making of Procedure and Practice in the Courts of this…