50 Ga. App. 865 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1935
1. Where, after the rendition of a verdict and judgment, a new trial has been granted, the case stands-upon the docket for trial as if there had been no trial. Civil Code (1910), § 6094; Anderson v. Clark, 70 Ga. 362 (2) ; Scott v. Powell Paving Co., 43 Ga. App. 705 (159 S. E. 895). This applies where a case at law had been referred to an auditor, and the issues tried by the jury were upon exceptions to the auditor’s findings on the facts. Civil Code (1910), § 5141. Although, under the ruling of the appellate court as applied to the law and the evidence, the verdict directed for the plaintiff was without evidence to support it and contrary to law, and under the law and the evidence a verdict for the defendant was demanded as a matter of law, the case nevertheless stands on the docket for trial.
2. The petition, while the ease stands upon the docket for trial after the grant of a new trial, is subject to amendment as in other cases. An amendment to the petition is not subject to the objection that the allegations therein are not sustained by the evidence which was adduced at the former trial, and the law applicable thereto as announced by the appellate court in granting the new trial.
3. Where a municipality had brought suit against a surety company to recover for an alleged breach of the official bond executed by the defend
4. The court erred in disallowing the amendment, and in rendering a judgment for the defendant without the intervention of a jury.
Judgment reversed.