General Motors Corp v. Friend

Decision Date09 May 1969
Docket NumberNo. 25053,25053
Citation167 S.E.2d 926,225 Ga. 290
PartiesGENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION v. Edwin H. FRIEND et al.
CourtGeorgia Supreme Court

Certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Georgia, 118 Ga.App. 763, 165 S.E.2d 734.

Greene, Buckley, DeRieux, Moore & Jones, Ferdinand Buckley, James A. Eichelberger, Atlanta, Ross L. Malone, Otis M. Smith, Detroit, Mich., for appellant.

Alford Wall, John Skinner, Jr., Neely, Freeman & Hawkins, Atlanta, for appellees.

Syllabus Opinion by the Court.

PER CURIAM.

On further consideration of the record in the present case, this court has reached the conclusion that the application for the writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals was improvidently granted. Accordingly, the same is

Dismissed.

All the Justices concur except ALMAND, P.J., and UNDERCOFLER and FRANKUM, JJ., who dissent.

ALMAND, Presiding Justice (dissenting).

For the reasons given in the dissenting opinion of Judges Pannell, Quillian and Whitman I would reverse the judgment of the Court of Appeals.

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