Nationwide Mutual Insurance v. Glaccum

Sognier, Chief Judge.

This litigation arose out of an automobile collision. See Nationwide Mut. Ins. Co. v. Whiten, 179 Ga. App. 544 (346 SE2d 914) (1986). In a second appearance of these parties before this court, we were called upon to review the trial court’s ruling that Dr. Glaccum, a chiropractor who had treated the plaintiff in the original negligence action and testified at trial, was not required to pay Nationwide, the original plaintiff’s uninsured motorist carrier, four times the amount requested by him as his witness fee as a penalty, under OCGA § 24-10-4, for unjustly claiming more…