Griffin v. Welch
Supreme Court of Georgia
1Opinion of the Court
Worrill, Justice.
1. Where, as here, the petitioners allege that their husband and father fraudulently obtained a divorce in Tennessee from the principal petitioner on March 18, 1937, and that he married the defendant on December 12, 1944, the act of the trial court in permitting one of the petitioners while a witness on cross-examination to testify, over objection of the petitioners, that she had heard that her father got a divorce in Tennessee in 1937, and later married the defendant, was not, although the evidence was hearsay, such harmful error as would require a reversal. Code § 38-301;…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Longstreet v. LongstreetSupreme Court of Georgia · 1949
- Hamilton v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1915
- South Georgia Railway Co. v. NilesSupreme Court of Georgia · 1908
- Arrington v. AwbreySupreme Court of Georgia · 1940
3Cited by1 opinion
- Griffin v. WelchSupreme Court of Georgia · 1954