Sikes v. Norman

1. While a trial judge may, within the narrow limits prescribed by the Civil Code, § 5331, direct a verdict, his refusal to do so will in no case be held error. Owen v. Palmour, 115 Ga. 683.

2. The bill of exceptions specified the motion for a new trial as part of the ¿record to be sent to this court. The record transmitted did not contain such a motion; and upon this fact becoming known to the court, the clerk of the superior court of Tattnall county was, under the provisions of the Civil Code, § 5575, ordered to transmit a certified copy of such motion. In re- ■ spouse to this order, the…