44 Ga. App. 536 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1932
In an action upon two policies of industrial life-insurance, Lillie Nichols was awarded a verdict and judgment against Bankers Health & Life Insurance Company for $239. A motion for a new trial was denied, and exceptions were taken.
It is urged in support of the general grounds of the motion
There is but one special ground in the motion for a new trial. An objection having been interposed, the trial judge refused to admit in evidence a certified copy .of a death certificate from the Florida Bureau of Vital Statistics, offered, by the defendant for the purpose of showing the age of the decedent. No evidence having been offered to prove the authenticity of the instrument, and since the plaintiff, although she, in some measure at least, first qualified herself to testify to what was stated therein, disqualified herself when recalled to the witness stand, we think the ruling of the trial judge in the premises was entirely proper.
Judgment affirmed.