Cordele Sash, Door & Lumber Co. v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America

1. “It is not only the right but the duty of a reviewing or appellate court to raise the question of its jurisdiction in all cases in which there may be any doubt as to the existence of such jurisdiction.” Welborn v. State, 114 Ga. 793, 796 (40 S. E. 857); Davis v. State, 191 Ga. 558 (13 S. E. 2d, 351); Milner v. Sunbeam Heating Co., 44 Ga. App. 221 (2) (160 S. E. 822); Durrell v. White, 198 Ga. 253 (31 S. E. 2d, 461).

2. The only exception is to the overruling of a general demurrer to the petition. The demurrer was overruled May 3, 1951, and exceptions pendente lite were filed, allowed, and…