23 Ga. App. 710 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1919
1. Under the facts of the case, the writing, on the back of the mortgage-note, signed by the payees, was in effect a transfer of the note to the Morgan County Bank.
2. The. assignments of error in the petition for certiorari, upon, certain rulings of the court during the trial of the- case, to vwit, “to which ruling of the court claimant then excepted, and now excepts and assigns the same as error of the court,” are not specific enough to raise any question for determination by this court, it not being alleged that the ■ rulings excepted to were contrary to law or to the evidence, or in what particulars they were erroneous.
3. In the state of the record it does not appear that the plaintiff made out a prima facie case. The trial court therefore erred in directing that the jury find the property subject.
4. The trial court erred also in rendering a judgment that the plaintiff in fi. fa. and the security on the bond have judgment against the defendant for $225 principal and $41.90 interest to date. In a claim case, where there is no supplemental equitable pleading converting it into an equitable-or quasi-equitable proceeding, the only issue is: Is the property subject? Timmons v. Mathis, 9 Ga. App. 713 (2) (72 S. E. 279). Even if the city court of Madison could “recognize and apply equity principles to such an extent as to permit equitable pleas to be filed, which, if sustained, would have the effect of defeating altogether the plaintiff’s legal cause of action” (Hecht v. Snook & Austin Co., 114 Ga. 921, 927, 41 S. E. 74), no such plea was filed in this case, and it remained a simule claim case.
Judgment reversed.