Lankford v. Dockery

Code (Ann. Supp.) § 6-701 provides in part as follows: “No cause shall be carried to the Supreme Court or Court of Appeals upon any bill of exceptions while the same is pending in the court below, unless the decision or judgment complained of, if it had been rendered as claimed by the plaintiff in error, would have been a final disposition of the cause or final as to some material party thereto.” A statement by the trial court not itself a judgment, but merely an expression of a reason for a judgment, is not a judgment of the court on which error may be assigned. Babb v. McKinnon, 185 Ga.…