Bell v. Bell

Jenkins, Chief Justice.

1. Under the provisions of the new divorce law (Ga. L. 1946, p. 90), it is now required that all petitions for divorce shall be “.verified by the plaintiff.”

No. 15914. September 5, 1947. Kelley, Hamrick S Googler and Frank A. Bowers, for plaintiff in error. G. Baxter Jones Jr., contra.

2. This new and mandatory provision is manifestly a rule of pleading and not of evidence. No reason existed such as would prevent the legislature from exercising its prerogative to require the plaintiff to verify his petition, even though it did not see proper to go further and provide, as…