Sims v. Georgia Power Co.

Felton, Chief Judge.

1. (a) The trial judge failed to specify the grounds of the second motion for a new trial as amended on which he .based his grant of the motion. Prior to 1959, this court held that there was no provision of law under which the trial judge could be compelled to so specify. Bass v. Pharr, 98 Ga. App. 125 (105 SE2d 286). Code § 6-1608 was amended by Ga. L. 1959, pp. 353, 354, so as to require, in part, that . . the trial judge shall state in all cases the ground or grounds upon which said new trial is granted.” Reference to the caption and the first provision of this section…