Groover v. Savannah Bank & Trust Co.

(After stating the foregoing facts.)

Where the court directs a verdict on specific pleas, and the record so shows, the verdict, though worded as a general verdict, is not a general, undirected verdict, but is to be regarded as a verdict actually directed by the court, and a party who does not object to the form of the verdict is not precluded from excepting to the direction of a verdict. What is here held is not contrary to the principle that where a general verdict is rendered by a jury, where a special verdict is invoked, or where the jury should have specified upon which of several pleas…