9 S.E.2d 833 | Ga. | 1940
The verdict is supported by the evidence; and the special grounds are insufficient to require the grant of a new trial.
Ground 4 complains that the judge admitted, over objection of the movant that it was not properly executed and sworn to, a copy of a taxpayer's return of property for taxation. It was a copy of Pet Givens' tax return, duly certified by the tax-collector, as the same appeared of record in his office. This ground is without merit. Jett v. Hart,
Ground 3 was as follows: "Because upon the trial of said case the court erred in the following point and particular: On page three, line three, of the brief of the evidence, C. H. Peddy, sworn in behalf of the plaintiff, testified as follows, on cross-examination by movant's attorney: `She said that she got him to pay the money.' Said testimony was admitted in evidence over objection timely made by counsel for defendant. The court erred in admitting said testimony in evidence over timely and proper objection by counsel for defendant, for the reason that said evidence was hearsay, illegal, and was prejudicial to the defendant's rights, and assigns same as error." Without an examination of the brief of evidence, we can not know whether the answer was in direct response to a question of movant's counsel or not; nor whom "she" or "him" refers to; nor whether the one meant defendant in error, and the other plaintiff in error. It is not shown that at the time the objection was made movant stated to the court what the objection was. Henslee v. Harper,
Judgment affirmed. All the Justices concur. *525