Berry v. Travelers Insurance Company

Jenkins, Justice.

Whether an action as brought in a superior court, having both law and equitable jurisdiction, is one in equity, such as will give this court jurisdiction of a bill of exceptions from a judgment therein, is determinable by the allegations and prayers of the petition. O’Callaghan v. Bank of Eastman, 180 Ga. 812, 817 (180 S. E. 847); Wallace v. Mize, 153 Ga. 374 (3), 383 (112 S. E. 724). Although “the jurisdiction of this court is not limited to good cases in equitjr, but extends to bad ones also” (Candler v. Bryan, 189 Ga. 851, 855, 8 S. E. 2d, 81), yet “the petition is not to…