Taylor v. Cook’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “`No cause shall be carried to the Supreme Court or Court of Appeals upon any bill of exceptions while the same is pending in the court below, unless the decision or judgment complained of, if it had been rendered as claimed by the plaintiff in error, would have been a final disposition of the cause or final as to some material party thereto.' Code § 6-701. In the instant case, the plaintiff in the court below sued joint defendants on a joint cause of action. One of the defendants filed a cross-action, which is pending in the court below. `Where demurrers are sustained as to one or more defendants in a joint cause of action, but the cause is left pending in the court below as to one or more of the defendants, the order sustaining the demurrers as to a part of the defendants can not be reviewed in the Supreme Court while the cause is still pending in the court below as to the other defendants.' Stanley v. Greenfield, 205 Ga. 99 ( 52 S. E. 2d 467 ). Since there is a cross-action pending in the court below as to one joint defendant in the instant case, and since a ruling as contended for by the plaintiff in error would not be a final disposition of the cause, the bill of exceptions was prematurely brought, and this court, not having jurisdiction, must dismiss the bill of exceptions.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 102 Ga. App. 577 - Chemetron Corp. v. Southern Nitrogen Co.