Shivers v. Hunnicutt

Almand, Justice.

The judgments under review are orders (a) denying a motion by the plaintiff for a judgment notwithstanding the verdict and (b) overruling the plaintiff’s motion for a new trial in which error is assigned on the direction of a verdict in favor of the defendant.

In her petition, as first amended, Mary Alice Shivers alleged: that she was the owner of a certain described tract of land in the City of Atlanta; that on July 14, 1947, she purchased the property by making the down payment of $500 from her own funds, but through an inadvertent mistake the deed named her husband as…