Legal Opinion

Buckeye Cotton Oil Co. v. Everett

Court of Appeals of Georgia

Decided April 13, 1921No. 11691Published

Action for damages; from Bibb superior court — Judge Mathews. June 24, 1920.

1Opinion of the CourtBloodworth, J.

1. In Buckeye Cotton Oil Co. v. Everett, 24 Ga. App. 738 (102 S. E. 167), this court held that the petition in this case set out a cause of action. The evidence submitted at the trial supports the allegations of the petition and the verdict has the approval of the judge who tried the case.

2. Some of the special grounds of the motion for a new trial failed to conform to the rule laid down by the Supreme Court, that “ This court cannot review an instruction alleged to be erroneous, when the exception thereto does not set forth, literally or in substance, the language complained of, so as to…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Seaboard Air-Line Railway v. PhillipsSupreme Court of Georgia · 1903
  2. Crawford v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1919
  3. Williams v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1916
  4. Southern Railway Co. v. DantzlerSupreme Court of Georgia · 1896
  5. St. John v. LeydenSupreme Court of Georgia · 1900

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