Nix v. Armour Fertilizer Works

1. An assignment of error upon a judgment overruling a motion for new trial, in this language, “to this judgment of the court the defendants excepted, and now except, and assign error thereon, and say that the court erred in overruling said motion for new trial on each and all of the grounds therein stated,” is sufficient to present the real issue. Thomas v. Lester, 166 Ga. 274 (142 S. E. 870).

2. While it is mandatory that a trial judge certify a bill of exceptions to be true, “the remainder of the prescribed form of the certificate is directory only, and no error or misdirection therein…