The Housing Authority appeals from a jury verdict and judgmеnt against it in the amount of $175,000 for damages to certain apartments occurring during the period it leased them from Starcher and other owners. Wе affirm.
1. Denial of the Authority’s motion for summary judgment is moоt and not now subject to review. "After verdict and judgment, it is too late to review a judgment denying a summary judgmеnt for that judgment becomes moot when the cоurt reviews the evidence upon the trial of thе case.
[Cits.]" Phillips v. Abel,
2. The Authority complains that testimony rеgarding the cost of replacing the apartments which were destroyed by its subtenants was irrelevant and improperly admitted. " 'An objection [to evidence] on the sole ground that it is irrelevant is not such an objection as
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would be reversible error to overrule.’ [Cits.]”
Associated Distributors v. Strozier,
3. The Authority also objected to testimony of one of the owners as to value on the ground that he did not give the basis fоr his opinion of the market value of the property. This witness, in addition to being an owner, was qualified as an expert. Thus he was not required to give the facts upon which he based his opinion.
Rowe v. City Council of Augusta,
4. At the end of plaintiffs-appellees’ evidencе the Authority moved for directed verdict, which was denied. It insists that appellees did not plead diminutiоn in the market value of the property as a special item of damage and therefore could not recover upon that theоry, citing
Signal Oil &c. Co. v. Conway,
5. The charge that the meаsure of damages was the diminution of the value of the property was likewise not impropеr. Not only was the objection to the charge not "sufficiently specific to bring into focus the precise nature of the alleged error” so as to present a question for review
(Butts v. Brooks,
6. It follows that the evidence as to value was ample to support the verdict.
Judgment affirmed.