Smith v. Barnett

Bell, Presiding Judge.

The bill of exceptions here questions the validity of the trial court’s order refusing to grant a motion to vacate a joint verdict and judgment and order a new trial for some defendants when the other codefendants in the same case were to be the recipients- of these benefits by a judgment of the Court of Appeals.

This appeal is brought by one group of codefendants in a suit who, on a previous appeal brought separately from the other codefendants, were denied a new trial. Smith v. Barnett, 107 Ga. App. 849 (132 SE2d 139). The other codefendants in their appeal were granted…